At the very beginning of finding this giant 'gemstone', the "world's largest diamond" was suspected of the genuinity, now the Guardian report confirmed it as fake--a PLASTIC Fake and revealed the story behind the scam.
Frustrated by the failure of the two miners to show him or Mr Brett Blom [a British property developer] the stone, he had come to Johannesburg earlier this week to "sort the matter out". After something of a wild goose chase he had met the miners on a roadside, and they had presented him with what was claimed to be the 7,000-carat gem.
"They showed me a lump of plastic," Mr Jolly said. "It was clearly, clearly a lump of plastic. There was no way in the world it was a diamond."
He said the miners then produced a diamond tester. He said they had seemingly fixed it beforehand to give a positive reading, but forgot to take the cap off while they did the test, making a nonsense of the claim that the instrument showed it was a genuine diamond. "The cap was still on the bloody thing," Mr Jolly said.
The property developer explained that he had a marketing agreement with the two miners by which he had an option to buy the piece of land where the stone was said to have been found and was entitled to 10% of any gemstones found there.
"I think they were salting the mine, that's what I think," he said, referring to an old scam used to make an empty mine appear viable.
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