South Africa Diamond Scandal

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South Africa Diamond Scandal
FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 file photo made from television, Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands. Jeremy Ractliffe, former head of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, announced Wednesday. Aug. 18, 2010 that he was stepping down from the charity's board after he acknowledged that he secretly possessed alleged "blood diamonds" for more than a decade. His possession of the diamonds came to light earlier this month when Campbell testified she gave them to Ractliffe in 1997, after receiving them from three men who came to her hotel room after she attended a 1997 Children's Fund charity event also attended by then-Liberian President Charles Taylor. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone via APTN, File)