RECENT diamond figures released by the government have provided further proof that the country's gems are being looted, experts have claimed.
According to figures tabled in Parliament recently by the Mines and Mining Development Deputy Minister Gift Chimanikire, the country sold three million carats of diamonds in the first three months of the year, with Treasury receiving US$30 million.
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