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The diamonds that Mujuru tried to sell

Indeed, The Insider in 2009 talked to two senior executives of Firstar Europe.

Bernd Hagemann, the head of Firstar Europe, a commodities trading company based in Warrington in the United Kingdom, said Joice Mujuru phoned him after the company had blacklisted her, her husband Solomon Mujuru, her daughter Nyasha, Nyasha’s husband Pedro Del Campo and their South African agent Dancor Spies.

Nyasha had tried to sell the company 3 700 kg of gold and several consignments of diamonds.

The diamonds in batches of two, three, four and five carat and had a total value of $15 874 366.60.

The gold was worth $141.9 million at the 2009 prices.

Here are the diamonds Mujuru wanted to sell:

Two carat diamonds

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The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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