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Israeli entrepreneur Menachem Zvik, owner of the MCR International Afumati Romania - is working diamonds by exploiting its workers in apalling conditions.  Israeli entrepreneur Menachem Zvik, owner of the MCR International Afumati Romania - is working diamonds by exploiting its workers in apalling conditions. In short, workers have no current water and hepatitis cases are frequent, have no medical insurance, have no heat wintertime, are working 11-12 hours a day and are paid peanuts. Most of the 180 workers are 15-16 years old (under legal working age), some have suffered work accident and most of them have professional ilnesses - ocular and pulmonar diseases, and are paid peanuts - around 7$/day, most of their wage is paid under the table. Wokers that tried to speak have been threathened with death. To be hired, you have to pass a polygraph test. Diamonds are coming from Israel and are shipped back immediately. Why Romania? Because the you can bribe the government as to close eyes...

The Chechen arms-trafficking brothers Mutaliev, with connections in Romania and the Republic of Moldova lost a plane in Angola in 1997. The aircraft, a Soviet-made AN 72 cargo belonging to the Renan lines in Moldova, but which flew for the Congo-based Pelikan Air, was forced to land and the crew were imprisoned by the Angolan army. The plane had made a series of suspicious stop-overs in South Africa, Cote d'Ivoire (Abidjan) and Angola (Andula) and was due back to Moldova. According to survivors, the aircraft had carried weapons, five Liberian passengers and a sizable amount of diamonds, the reason for its arrest. Unofficial data indicated that the diamonds were to be shipped to Romania. Starting from this indirect connection to Romania on the guns-for-diamonds market, we have embarked on a thorough investigation on the Romanian diamond market, which has taken off quite fast in the last ten years. We have found a concealed world, where secrecy surpasses the absurd. We have also foun...