Comme Smillie et ses collaborateurs le montent, preuve à l’appui, dans leur rapport, cette délégation de pouvoirs constitue une invitation à la corruption et aux abus par le crime organisé(9). Les auteurs indiquent que le HRD enregistre l’origine d’un diamant en inscrivant le dernier pays d’où celui-ci a été exporté.
As Smillie et al. factually document in their report, this delegation of power by the government has been an invitation to corruption and abuse of the system by organized crime (9) They note that the HRD records the origin of a diamond as the country from which the diamond was last exported, so that diamonds produced in Sierra Leone may be officially registered as imported from Liberia, Israel, the United Kingdom, or whatever other trading centre they may have moved through before coming to Belgium.
