De Beers� sightholder affiliate in fake jewellery row
Friday, April 17, 2015
![KGK has opened a factory in Gaborone and will be announced as a new Botswana Sightholder next month](https://cdn4.premiumread.com/?url=https://www.mmegi.bw/uploads/imported_images/2015/april/17/php37AF.tmp.jpg&w=400&q=72&f=jpg&t=1)
KGK has opened a factory in Gaborone and will be announced as a new Botswana Sightholder next month
KGK Jewellery vehemently denies the accusations. KGK Diamond Group, which is one of the largest diamond manufacturers and Jewellers in the world, recently opened a factory in Botswana after being selected by De Beers as one of the new Botswana sightholders for the 2015-18 selling period.
According to court papers filed before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Madison Avenue Diamonds, a retail jewellery company licensed by Ivanka Trump, the daughter of billionaire Donald Trump, to manufacture and market the Ivanka Trump Diamond Collection, is accusing KGK Jewellery of supplying fake jewellery to the retail company.
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