# Diamville **Diamville** is the gold and diamond buyer in the [[Central African Republic]] that the US Treasury describes as "controlled by Prigozhin." Founded in 2019, it is registered to Bienvenu Patrick Setem Bonguende, reportedly a driver for sanctioned Wagner executive Dmitry Sytyi — the nominee-owner pattern common to the [[Wagner Group]]'s African companies. A 2022 investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency, All Eyes on Wagner and the Dossier Center found it had sold nearly 1,000 carats between October 2019 and January 2021, worth up to $12 million, in Dubai and Antwerp, and accused it of buying outside Kimberley Process-authorized zones and pressuring dealers to sell only to it. **Sanctions:** EU, February 2023, for trading gold and diamonds "looted by force from local traders"; US Treasury, June 27, 2023, together with [[Midas Ressources]] and a Dubai trader sanctioned for its dealings with Diamville; UK, June 13, 2024. ## See Also - [[Central African Republic]] · [[Wagner Group]] · [[Midas Ressources]] · [[Lobaye Invest]] · [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]]