The main factors behind the cancellation of business with the diamond company are members of the Belgian parliament. According to publications, during the last few days they exerted heavy pressure on European Union officials in order to prevent Elrosa from entering the list. According to them, the boycott of the company will lead to a serious damage to the production of diamonds from Russia to Belgium, which will lead to thousands of unemployed in Antwerp – the host of the largest diamond exchange in the world. The Belgian Foreign Ministry refused to comment.
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It should be noted that the diamond company Alrosa took part in the direct financing of a new Russian naval submarine and also fed billions of euros a year into the Kremlin’s war chest, an EU official said. Russian President Vladimir Putin even boasted that the Russian company gave him “serious” income.