Fri May 24 07:36:08 SAST 2013
Fri May 24 07:36:08 SAST 2013

A belly full of diamonds

Nov 15, 2012 | Reuters | 23 comments

The man arrested at Joburg airport had swallowed 220 polished diamonds

South African police have arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of attempting to smuggle 220 diamonds out of the country in his digestive tract through Johannesburg’s main airport.

The Lebanese national bound for Dubai had swallowed $2,25 million worth of polished diamonds before he was stopped before a security checkpoint at Africa’s biggest airport and then relieved of his concealed cargo, police said.

“We used laxatives to remove the diamonds,” police spokesman Paul Ramaloko said on Thursday.

The man will appear in court on Thursday.

In March, police arrested another Lebanese national who was attempting to smuggle $1,69 million worth of diamonds out of South Africa.

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Fri May 24 07:36:08 SAST 2013 ::
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Nov 15, 2012

NeoBaBe

Imagine that, one minute all the wealth in ur belly, n then it is washed away by u shitting it out, n then going straight behind bars..
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Nov 15, 2012

Pointman

South Africas airports - weapons get through - but not diamonds.
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Nov 15, 2012

MophemeKoPitori

Ya ne?!

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Nov 15, 2012

Nastradamas

you know i cant stand the smell of someone when they K@K
but i wanna be next to that boy when he K@Ks
is gonna be a sh!t full of diamonds
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Nov 15, 2012

MommaC

Who got the k@k job of 'retrieving' the diamonds?
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Nov 15, 2012

Bingo-Ingo

@Pointman, MophemeKoPitori, Nastradamas' MommaC
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Go back to work, even charity work if you are too good for for remunerative work.
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Nov 15, 2012

DJ-Winner

MommaC
Who got the k@k job of 'retrieving' the diamonds?
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ha ha ha ha...I can search k@k for $2,25 million, can't you? We are talking about R15 million here...
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Nov 15, 2012

seribe

this Million dollar sh**t!!!

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Nov 15, 2012

Nastradamas

@Bingo-Ingo

whats your point wena houtkopp ?
cause youre busy with the same K@K article and even commenting K@K on it
you even smell like that million dollar K@K
now K@K the f3ck up and go back to the loo to finish your K@K
K@K YOU !!!
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Nov 15, 2012

Bingo-Ingo

@ Nastradamas

You must be a public servant working for the Department of Works (underperforming, yet overpaid), arrogance and everything tells a lot.








i be
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