Tying the precious stone to dispensable miners is a web ... If a buyer is unlucky, a fault line will mar the clarity. But the value of the finest jade can rival that of diamonds.

In another instance, victims would “invest” in raw jade stones, where the return on investment depended on the value of cut jade stones. Investors transferred money to the scammers’ bank ...

Official government data puts the annual value somewhere in the millions ... When Si Thu finds a large jade stone, the mining company or the armed groups take a cut, or both.

MGE oversees most jade and gemstone industries in Myanmar and is ... A previous report from Global Witness put the estimated value of Myanmar's jade at $31bn (£22bn) in 2014, based on the ...