Brexit backer Arron Banks faces questions over uncut diamond

Controversial businessman Arron Banks is facing questions from anti-corruption campaigners over a valuable uncut diamond from South Africa that he may have smuggled out of the country, evading thousands of pounds in taxes and flouting controls on the international movement of diamonds set up to prevent the sale of “conflict gems”.The allegations, made by Forensics for Justice, are based on an email from Banks to a business partner, which the organisation says it collected from the re