Conflict Minerals: 'Blood Diamond' Suspect Dies in Belgian Prison

Sep 29, 2016 | Agence France-Presse
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A US-Belgian businessman accused of enslavement and diamond trafficking during Sierra Leone's civil war has died in a Brussels prison, officials said on Thursday.Michel Desaedeleer, 65, "died on Tuesday to Wednesday night, most likely of natural causes," a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutor's office told AFP.