Anders Breivik was victim of ‘blood diamond’ scam

Mr Sather’s testimony drew an angry response from Breivik.

“What I wrote in the compendium is correct, and regardless of what the
police concludes, this will be proved,” he said. “Within one year
and three months this will be proved because then we will see another attack.”
He said that he had bought a raw diamond and diamond industry equipment in
order to corroborate his cover.

Mr Sather showed how on March 31, a month after his trip to Liberia, Breivik
transferred $500 to the account of Alpha Kallon, a Liberian man who is
believed to now live in the USA, and then two weeks later transferred a
further $4,400.

He also detailed the calls Breivik made to diamond dealers in the UK and US
both before and after his trip.

His “closest friend” told the court that he had given 10,000
Norwegian Kroner ($1,650 in today’s money) to Breivik to procure blood
diamonds.

Mr Sather said police believed it was unlikely that Breivik would lose his
best friend’s money, even to create a cover.

Breivik’s lawyer Geir Lippestad pointed out that the investigators had failed
to track down Mr Kallon, investigate all of the more than 8,000 contacts to
whom Breivik emailed his manifesto, or discover anything about Breivik’s
visit to London in May 2001.

“Four people meet up secret place, using secret names to discuss the
grounding of an organisation ten years ago,” he said of the visit,
pointing out that the UK and Norway would have to have highly sophisticated
intelligence services to prove that such a meeting did not take place.

“We cannot exclude that he met a Serb in Liberia, or that he met people
who shared his opinions in London,” Sather conceded.

The only data Sather presented was receipts from his visits to branches of
Caffe Italia, and the Goose and Granite pub chain.

The trial continues.

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