STORY: Antwerp, Belgium – one of the largest diamond trading hubs in the world – has a Russia problem. It was only a few weeks after Russian troops invaded Ukraine last year when diamond firms in ...

Led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, the men came to be known as the School of Turin, who operated under the aliases of Speedy, the Monster, the Genius and the King of Keys Four of the five men were caught ...

ANTWERP, Belgium, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Only a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Antwerp-based diamond dealer Thierry Tugendhaft started receiving calls from big jewellers in Paris ...

While Antwerp is losing its moniker as the diamond capital of the world, Russia is merely redirecting supplies to other buyers, including India, the UAE and China, which are benefiting from these ...

Pedestrians pass window shoppers browsing the Orsini Diamonds store in the Diamond Quarter of Antwerp, Belgium, on April 28. No one would ever call the atmosphere on Antwerp’s Hoveniersstraat relaxed.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Thieves emptied more than 100 vaults at a diamond trading center in what officials said might be the largest theft ever in Antwerp, the gem trading capital of the world.

On a weekend in February 2003, five men carried out what’s largely considered to be the world’s biggest diamond heist ever in Antwerp, Belgium. Led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, the diamond heist saw a ...