"Former Finance Minister Claims Mugabe Was Aware of Looting of US$15 Billion Diamond Revenue", 5 Mar 2016

Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who was in Zimbabwe's Government of National Unity (GNU), says he furnished President Robert Mugabe with all details that diamond revenue from Marange in Manicaland province was being looted but he refused to act. Biti said Mr. Mugabe was dismissive when he approached him with the evidence of looting..."And one of the things Mugabe used to say to me was, why go after diamonds, how about platinum …”...In 2012, Partnership Africa Canada, a member of the Kimberley Process charged that at least US$2 billion worth of diamonds had been stolen from Zimbabwe's eastern diamond fields and had enriched President Mugabe's inner circle, international gem dealers and criminals...