The vice president of Israel’s Diamond Exchange was recently arrested last month in Budapest. Avraham Traub was arrested on a request from Russia, which charged that he falsely declared the value of an uncut diamond when leaving Russia after a trip there in 1998. Traub denies the charges.
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