Customs officers at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport have seized 35,500 diamonds from a Russian woman.
A third of the seized diamonds would cost over one million U.S. dollars, the Russian Information Agency Novosti reported, citing a statement from the Russian Customs Service press center.
The woman, a resident of the Russian internal republic of Buryatia, was
returning from the United Arab Emirates. She was wearing a belt stuffed with the precious stones and over a hundred packages with small diamonds that customs officials were unable to count. She also tried to bring into the country several pieces of jewelry — a necklace, three pairs of earrings, a watch and a ring.
The press center was quoted by the agency as saying the customs officials had been counting the diamonds for over 12 hours, but could only count a fraction of the total amount.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/07/diamond.shtmlIs this how they're getting some of the $$$ out of Iraq/Saudi Arabia/UAE?