If you’re going to sell jewelry worth more than $1,000, it is helpful to first get a certified jewelry grading report from a recognized lab like GIA or IGI. When a company advertises a GIA ...

(IDEX Online) - A dealer from New York City's Diamond District has pleaded guilty to defrauding two merchants out of $460,000 by switching their natural stones for lab grown replicas.

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) began grading lab-grown diamonds in 2007 but stopped for several years. After the GIA began certifying lab diamonds again in 2019, lab-grown diamonds ...

Manashe Sezanayev has pleaded guilty to swapping real diamonds with fake lab-grown ones and has agreed to pay $200,000 in ...

Diamond dealer to be sentenced to five years of probation and make restitution of $200,000, which has already been paid.