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1 set 2013 · Polished stones are effectively untraceable, and the certificates themselves are laughably simple and easily forged, so all that smugglers need to do is get their stones into India’s massive diamond exchange warehouses, mix them with legitimate stuff, borrow KP certificates from legitimately imported goods, and courier the laundered products out to the West as “conflict-free” merchandise.
11 lug 2017 · The Diamond Smugglers. The chilling, spy-studded story of a carefully organized, private intelligence army—and the master operative who ingeniously commanded it. The glitter of espionage, the lure of easy money, the fever of men and women trapped by the temptations of “hot ice”..all interwoven in a nerve-tightening web of intrigue and ...
Aided by an ex-MI5 agent and International Diamond Security Organization operative going by the alias “John Blaize,” Fleming chronicled the IDSO’s infiltration of the “million-carat network”―the world’s most notorious diamond smuggling ring. Every year, a shadowy band of racketeers pirated a fortune in diamonds out of Africa, and ...
The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies’ counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time.The result rivals Fleming’s greatest spy novels.
24 gen 2011 · David Leigh. 24 January 2011. @007dossier. The Diamond Smugglers is an investigation by Ian Fleming of diamond smuggling operations out of South Africa. Originally written as a series of articles in the Sunday Times, the book expanded upon the original material and was first published in 1957. David Leigh founded The James Bond Dossier in 2002.
THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS. Alongside his relatively new guise as a thriller writer, Fleming retained his position as a journalist at the Sunday Times. In 1957 the paper invited him to write a story on the International Diamond Security Organisation which worked to crack down on diamond smuggling, a subject Fleming was familiar with after ...
4 apr 2013 · The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies’ counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time.The result rivals ...
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