[jdong]

And a few months after the release of that article, the guy gets caught with large amounts of rough diamonds in his possession.

http://www.wired.com/2009/07/organizer-of-worlds-biggest-dia...

Sadly I was unable to find out what happened after that.

[veb]

I bet they were probably purchased legitimately to mess with the authorities. He sounds like he was testing them, to see what would happen. Reminds me so much of penetration testing!