Diamonds used in swindle to be auctioned
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Diamonds are forever. And for restitution, too. Martin Frankel, the Greenwich, Conn., financier who swindled millions from insurance companies, converted his ill-gotten gains into diamonds before fleeing the country in 1999.
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Some of the world's best cricket players are due to be sold at auction in the Indian city of Mumbai.
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THE baseball that Barry Bonds hit for his 700th career home run brought a top bid of $US804,129 ($1.08 million) today after a 10-day online auction.
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Some planets in our galaxy could harbor an unexpected treasure: a thick layer of diamonds hiding under the surface, astronomers reported on Monday.
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Science & environment: Precious rocks set to sell for thousands as Bonhams hold first auction of meteorites.
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Thieves have stolen two diamonds worth about $14.1 million from a trade fair at one of Paris&#39; top museums. The gems were taken from a display case at an antique and jewelry dealers show at the Louvre Museum complex.
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The famed Hope Diamond glows a mysterious red when exposed to ultraviolet light, a finding that scientists say can help them "fingerprint" blue diamonds and tell the real ones from the artificial.
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An auction of more than 700 items belonging to singer and actress Cher raised over $3.5 million -- more than double pre-sale estimates -- as celebrity collectors snapped up her possessions.
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Seduzioni Diamonds sigla accordo di licenza con Lucky Lines
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PARISâTwo diamonds together worth about $18 million disappeared from an antique dealers&#39; show at Paris&#39;s Louvre museum complex yesterday, in an apparent robbery while the person manning the stand was absent.
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Some of the world's most famous meteorites are up for sale in a New York auction called the first of its kind.
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WASHINGTON -- Three Army Reserve officers and a U.S. contractor were indicted Wednesday as part of a bid-rigging scam that steered millions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction projects to a contractor in exchange for cash, luxury cars, jewelry and other pricey goods.
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The biggest colourless diamond to appear at auction for 20 years will go under the hammer later this year, officials said Tuesday.
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Possessions of late soul legend James Brown are to be auctioned to help settle outstanding taxes.
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It is no secret that the art market has become drunk with money lately, but $100 million for a diamond skull by the artist Damien Hirst? Even Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund billionaires might think twice.
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Two diamonds jointly worth together worth over Â£7.8 million have disappeared from an antique dealers&#39; show in Paris. During the event at the famous Louvre museum, a glass case holding the jewels was forced open.
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A 8ft-tall sculpture of a diamond is expected to raise around Â£6m when it is sold at auction in November.