A woman implicated in the massive diamond smuggling operation run by Russian-Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev jumped to her death this afternoon from the Diamond Tower in Ramat Gan.
The woman was employed at Leviev’s company, LLD Diamonds, and reports in Hebrew-language media say she had been questioned by police earlier this month about her boss, who is suspected of smuggling hundreds of millions of shekels’ worth of gems into Israel over the last several years.
It was not immediately clear if the woman was a suspect in the investigation.
Her name and other identifying details are being withheld by police due to the ongoing investigation.
LLD Diamonds issues a statement confirming the woman’s death, and slam police for violating her rights during her interrogation.
“We will assist in the investigation into her death, in order to help put an end to this phenomenon of police trampling the rights of interogees, causing irreversible damage for the sake of media headlines,” the company says in a statement.
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