Cute Jewellery In News Reports Again

Designer jewelry brands typically feature diamonds as the jewel in the crown of cute jewellery. Dirty tricks and criminal offenses concerned with these sparkly rocks have fairly recently been showing up in news bulletins in a spate of worldwide stories. Although these big criminal cases haven't involved designer jewelry brands.

For instance, away from the designer jewelry brands market, earlier this year the former wife of the Sultan of Brunei won a multi-million dollar case in the United Kingdom against her former female bodyguard. Mariam Aziz, who had previously been married to the sultan in between 1981 and 2003, filed a couple of claims in London against Fatimah Kumin Lim for theft of her cute jewellery.

The judge, Mr Justice Lindblom, sitting at the High Court in London, decided Ms Lim had sold diamond jewelry bracelet and 2 diamonds, as a whole worth approximately $20m (?12.5m), without authorization.

Ms Aziz is seeking damages from Ms Lim, who lives in Singapore. The judge stated he found in favour of Ms Aziz nevertheless that an valuation is required to be produced to determine how much needs to be awarded in damages.

The diamond bracelet was believed to be valued at about $5.5m while a blue pear-shaped gemstone was evaluated by Ms Aziz at $12.7m. A rectangular yellow diamond is considered to possess a minimum valuation of $1m. Ms Aziz had told the court she'd given a diamond bracelet to one of her bodyguards for safekeeping during a night out in 2008, and had not seen it again. This is the types of loss you'd without doubt notice. And, in contrast to many designer jewelry brands, this piece was unique and could not be replaced.

Her past bodyguard stated she'd been asked to sell the jewels on to pay off her boss's wagering outstanding debts. Nevertheless Ms Aziz's lawyers told the court that Ms Lim had organized the sale of the bracelet to a Geneva-based business for over $5m, as it was she who had gambling debts. The judge agreed with the evidence in court that it was "bordering on the absurd" to propose that Mrs Aziz, an exceptionally wealthy woman, would have to sell the diamonds in order to meet the alleged ?820,000 debt. Ms Lim, who is located in Singapore and wasn't in the court in the uk, has been made the subject of a worldwide order freezing her assets.

Meanwhile, another case involving diamonds hit the news headlines globally. Charles Taylor, the deposed president of Liberia, witnessed a judge in an international court declare him responsible for 11 counts of war crimes, which include "acts of terrorism" not to mention "sexual slavery". Taylor was accused by United Nations prosecutors of trading in "blood diamonds" to fund a brutal and bloody struggle carried out by rebels in Liberia's nearby Sierra Leone.

The conviction has made international history. The ex-president who led Liberia between 1997 and 2003 had become the first ex-head of state to be convicted by international justice since the Nuremburg trials 65 years ago. A prosecutor said the judgement demonstrated that presidents could well be "held to account" for his or her actions in office.

Diamonds featured in his campaign of horror as Taylor was found to have supplied rebels in adjoining Sierra Leone with arms and recruits in exchange for illegally-excavated diamonds. This made him guilty of "aiding and abetting" the guerrillas, making him "criminally responsible" for atrocities in Sierra Leone, ruled the court. Nonetheless he was acquitted of being personally or jointly responsible for the crimes.

Critical to the case was evidence that Taylor's staff gave model Naomi Campbell a pouch of gemstones as a present after they met at a star studded gala celebration hosted by Nelson Mandela, then South Africa's President, in 1997. Appearing as a witness in August 2010, Miss Campbell claimed that she had been given three "small, dirty-looking stones" by some unidentified visitors whilst staying in a government chalet as the guest of the South African President.

She stated she did not know their worth as she was used to seeing diamonds sparkly and in a box. During the 4 year litigation, there was also evidence heard from Mia Farrow, the Hollywood movie star and Carole White, the model's previous agent of 17 years.

In an additional case heard this month, a care home manager reinvented herself as Lady Glanister and obtained 15 fur coats, jewellery and champagne after thieving ?330,000 from her employer, a court heard. Jenny Glanister turned to criminal activity after becoming addicted to a television jewellery buying channel. She worked as the finance manager accountable for two care homes dealing with adults with learning troubles.

In between 2004 and 2010 she stole an overall total of ?338,805 and used the name Lady Glanister on the shopping channel to treat herself with gemstones. She was jailed for 32 months on Tuesday after she admitted to eight counts of larceny, fraud and false book keeping at Northampton Crown Court.

The TV shopping channel offered designer jewelry brands and cute jewellery, which seduced the care home chief into a life of crime.