The three most expensive diamonds recovered during the reporting period, including a stone weighing 8.74 carats, which sold for $ 2584 per carat diamond weighing 8.64 carats, which left customers at a price of $ 2558 per carat and a diamond 3.48 carats, which sold for $ 4382 per carat.
The biggest size diamond 53 of 183 stones produced during this period weighed a total of 174.46 carats, and had an average size of 3,292 carats. They were sold at an average price of $ 1358 per carat.
Tango reported that diamond mining Oena mine, since the time of its acquisition of the company, reached 564.06 carats, as the average price of these stones was $ 1330 per carat.
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Gemological Institute of America (Gemological Institute of America, GIA) recently withdrew gemological reports 1042 diamonds, after it became clear that the color and purity of the stones were deliberately altered. Entries in the registry for these stones have also been removed.
"Given the importance of the situation, Export Promotion Council of precious stones and jewelery (Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council, GJEPC) and the Indian Diamond Exchange (Bharat Diamond Bourse, BDB) convened a Standing Committee to monitor so the situation. In order to better understand the problem, the committee met and held a detailed meeting with senior leaders of the GIA and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) ", - said chairman of GJEPC Pravinshankar Pandya (Praveenshankar Pandya).
According to GIA and TCS, fraud scheme included former and current employees of Tata. 1042 Characteristics of diamonds in the reports had been illegally inflated commissioned by certain individuals. TCS employees have changed the parameters of quality of stones to print reports and send them to customers. Meanwhile, in the laboratory they stressed that the incident is limited to only 1042 stones. The entire list of reports for diamonds with exaggerated features published on the GIA website.
On request GJEPC and BDB laboratory has agreed to a free re-test all diamonds sent to GIA during the commission of fraud. Any client of the laboratory received a certificate at this time, can take advantage of this opportunity. GIA released a comprehensive statement in connection with this situation.
"The incident is currently investigated by the police. Results of the investigation are expected. At the same time, we assure the diamond trade that we take this situation very seriously. If any of the representatives of the diamond industry will be found guilty of this crime, both associations will take the most stringent action against such offenders ", - said Anoop Mehta (Anoop Mehta), president of the BDB.
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