Dundo – As part of operation “Safe festive season”, the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) in the north-eastern Lunda Norte Province, in the last three days, seized 756 diamond stones of various carats in illicit possession of three nationals.
The information was made public Sunday by the spokesperson of SIC, Graciano Lumanhe, which according to him, the three nationals were transferred to the Public Prosecutor's Office for legal procedures and the diamonds will be delivered to the advanced post of the Transparency Operation in the neighbouring Malanje Province.
Graciano Lumanhe revealed that the diamonds were seized in the municipalities of Cambulo, Lucapa and Cuango and appealed to the population who live in the diamond exploration zones to work with the authorities in order to denounce illegal mining.
He said that in the framework of the operation, a tanker truck with 18,000 litres of petrol was seized in the municipality of Xá-muteba, for smuggling fuel.
He said that the truck had left Luanda without Sonangol´s authorisation and was heading for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
