20 Core Mining Representatives: • Lovemore Kurotwi [retired officer who played a senior role in the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and nephew of the late Lt. Gen. Vitalis Zvinavashe, retired former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces]. • Adrian Taylor [alleged to have worked as a mercenary in Sierra Leone]. • Yehuda Licht [Israeli diamond dealer, believed to have spent time in jail in Angola on diamond-related smuggling offences]. • Danesh and Ashok Pandeya [active diamond smugglers in the DRC conflict. They claim to be partners of high-level people in the Zimbabwe government. Ashok is on the police wanted list in Thailand over fraud involving diamonds worth US$100 million]. 79 Mbada Diamonds and Canadile Miners (Pvt) Ltd were given licences to begin mining two of five mining zones with diamond resources in Marange. 80 No transparent procedures were followed. 81 Each company was granted a concession of 2,100 hectares in the Marange diamond fields. In return, the companies undertook to invest US$100 million in the form of equipment and machinery that would be used for building physical processing, water, road and security infrastructure. They also agreed to share equally the costs of relocating 4,207 households within and around the mining fields. 82 In January 2010, just three months after the final agreements had been signed with the ZMDC, Mbada and Canadile were ordered by the Supreme Court to cease their operations pending the finalisation of a diamond claims ownership wrangle with African Consolidated Resources (ACR), which had challenged their activities in the courts. ACR had been fighting in the courts to regain its claims seized by the government in 2006 and given to ZMDC and then to Mbada and Canadile. Within their limited operating period, the two companies were reported to have realised US$70 million worth of diamonds. 83 http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/32076/the-chiadzwa-gang-shady-individuals-and-fugitives.html 79 The Zimbabwean, ‘The Chiadzwa gang: Shady individuals and fugitives’, 25 June 2010: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/32076/the-chiadzwa-gang-shady-individuals-and-fugitives.html 80 Rapaport, ‘Timeline of Events at Marange Diamond Fields’, February 2011: http://www.diamonds.net/cms/Zimbabwe/docs/Marange_Timeline-041110-_2_ 81 The Zimbabwe Independent, ‘Diamond companies make a killing’, 19 March, 2010: http://www.theindependent.co.zw/local/25807-diamond-companies-make-a-killing.html 82 Zim Online, ‘Full text: KP Monitor’s report’, 13 April 2010: http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=5908 83 Zimbabwe Independent, ‘Police join diamond rush’, 29 April 2010: http://www.theindependent.co.zw/local/26335-police-join-diamond-rush-.html