A recent parliamentary report shows that the Zimbabwean government is not receiving nearly as much money from the stones as it should.
Mega-rich Zimbabwean businessman Robert Mhlanga stands at the centre of an opaque network of companies set up to cash in on Marange diamond fields.
The head of Zim’s Marange diamond firm, a trusted Mugabe lieutenant, has paid inflated prices for prime real estate in KwaZulu-Natal and Sandton.