Stolen diamonds stashed where the sun don’t shine
KINSHASA (AFP) - A pilfering worker in a Congolese diamond mine was caught in the act when he walked past a security scanner with 126 of the sparkling gems stashed up his rear end, a mine spokesman has said.
The would-be thief, a cleaner, “hid the small stones” — valued at 5,000 dollars (3,900 euros) — “in his anus,” explained Mike Mutombo of the Miba mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday.
“An investigation has been opened and the heads of the relevant services have been suspended,” he said, adding that it was “practically impossible” for the heist to have been organized without the connivance of others in the selection center where the cleaner worked.
No information was released as to how the diamonds were recovered, or whether the man was arrested.
The Miba mine, 80 percent owned by the state and 20 percent by Mwana Africa and listed on the Alternative Investment Market in London, is spread over a 45,000 square kilometer (17,000 square mile) area in the Kasai region of central DR Congo.
Source: Yahoo!
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