The Jordanian Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of a jewelry expert, on charges of breach of trust, and imprisoned him for 6 months, for attempting to seize rare diamond stones, the value of which amounts to 16 million dinars (about 23 million dollars), according to the estimation of the accused himself.
The diamond stones, which the jewelry expert tried to seize, belonged to an Arab businessman residing in Amman. He presented them to the accused in his capacity as a jewelry expert, in order to estimate them and know their weight, in preparation for selling them.
The businessman had asked his media advisor to provide him with a jewelry expert to find out the value of the diamonds on the ring and the necklace. According to the verdict, the accused took 4 diamonds from the ring and the necklace, two of them blue, the third yellow-white, and the last transparent diamond stone, and replaced them all with fake glass pieces. According to the Jordanian newspaper, Al-Ghad, the defendant had removed the blue diamonds from the ring and the necklace, examined and weighed them, and also removed the other stones from the necklace in order to weigh them. Others in order to bring the equipment related to that, and because the complainant wanted to sell the necklace and the ring without the blue stones in it, he agreed with the defendant to change it with other stones, and the defendant, based on an agreement with the complainant, brought two blue sapphire stones for the ring and the necklace in order to replace them, then He removed the two stones from them, and the defendant gave the complainant the two stones that he replaced for the necklace and the ring, and then he installed sapphire in place of the stones he had disassembled. It was on the contract and the ring, which prompted him to inform the security, who in turn managed to seize the blue stone of the ring in the safe of the defendant's house after it was opened by an expert who opened the safes after the defendant refused to open them. According to the receipt of seizures from the security authorities.
Okaz (Oman)