In countries like Zimbabwe, partisan national security forces and secret police have looted diamond fields to secure a lucrative off-budget revenue stream that frees them from government budgets and the oversight these bring.
Diamond did manage to secure vital commissions, however: his friend Charles Munch, now conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, premiered his Symphony No 6 in 1957, and he found a new supporter in Eugene Ormandy, who conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in his Symphony No 7 in 1962.
Jefferies told BBC Scotland last Wednesday that he hoped to secure Diamond's signature and help to make the most of the player's talents.
"We want to be an international diamond center, a place where Israelis, where people from New York will come to secure their diamonds," Mr. Kakfwi said.
It alleges members of the president's inner circle occupy several positions at once, serving simultaneously as top officials in the military, shareholders in diamond mining companies, and co-owners of the private security firms hired by the mining companies to secure the diamond fields.
Northampton's Ricky Ravenhill was sent off for a second yellow card, but after Diamond's equaliser, keeper Matt Duke denied Paddy Madden to secure a point.
Lister fired home in the 89th minute to secure a win as the Diamonds extended their unbeaten run in 2016.
A week later, at Christie's in London, Laurence Graff, a London jeweller, fought off Aleks Paul of Essex Global Trading, New York, to secure the huge blue Wittelsbach diamond, which had belonged to the Spanish and Bavarian royal families.
