Sierra Leone: Was Billionaire Steinmetz Betrayed by CEO over Diamond Mine?

Nov 11, 2015 | Thomas Biesheuvel and Jesse Riseborough, Bloomberg
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The prize is a chunk of African earth that yields some of the most valuable diamonds on the planet for premium jeweler Tiffany & Co. The fight for the Koidu mine in Sierra Leone pits embattled Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and his BSG Resources Ltd. against a government struggling to revive an economy crippled by the global commodities slump and Ebola’s deadliest outbreak ever.