The Indo Daily: The bankrupt Dublin Jeweller, the fake gems and the missing diamonds
The Sunday Independent recently revealed that another customer took legal action against Empress Fine Jewels, which was ordered to pay her nearly €35,000, after diamond rings she entrusted to the store were reported stolen while being taken by a pensioner to another location to be cleaned. She received a call the next day from the jeweller, telling her the rings had been stolen from the pensioner on a Dublin Bus.
In the aftermath of publicity surrounding this case, another woman decided to have her triple diamond emerald cluster ring — which she bought from the jewellery shop in December 2023 — tested.
An independent valuer examined the ring using specialist technology and has in recent days confirmed the woman's suspicions that the stones are fake.
Today on The Indo Daily, Kevin Doyle is joined by Ali Bracken, News Journalist with the Sunday Independent, to find out why all that glitters, may not necessarily be gold.
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