Diamond smuggling in the Ivory Coast leads to $23 Million worth of diamonds to leave the country each year.
$23 million of diamonds smuggled out of Ivory Coast each year.
(Additional illicit products sold around the world.)
Source: Partnership Africa Canada, “Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers”, The Diamonds and Human Security Project, Revised Edition, November 2006,pg.5,(accessed: November 13, 2006).