One day before, Lau had paid 28,5 million dollars for another pink intense coloured diamond of 16,08 carats. The millionaire of Hong Kong paid the record sum of 48,46 million dollars to give to his 7-year-old daughter the blue diamond of 12,03 carats that was auctioned by Sotheby's in Geneva. The magnate of the construction, condemned in 2014 for corruption in Macao, the world capital of the game, bought the diamond on Wednesday night in Switzerland and decided to be call it ' The Blue Moon of Josephine ' (Josephine's blue moon), in honoring his daughter. A spokesperson of the magnate confirmed these purchases and said that he bought first rose, which 'Sweet Josephine' called, and then the 'Blue Moon'. According to the appraiser David Bennett, the 'Blue Moon' beat several records, between them that of the most expensive diamond.
A spectacular blue diamond of 12,03 carats was auctioned this Wednesday by night in Geneva by the house Sotheby's to a record price of 43,2 million Swiss Francs (40 million Euros, 43 million dollars).
It is not the first time that Joseph Lau offers jewels to his daughter. In 2009 he paid, according to the press, 9,5 million dollars for another blue diamond that called ' Star of Josephine '. The 64-year-old millionaire was condemned in March, 2014 to five years and three months of prison for corrupt credit to the former secretary of Macao, with the hope to buy areas in this former Portuguese colony under Chinese guardianship. Nevertheless, it is slightly probable that it fulfills his sentence because it was sentenced in absence and does not exist treated about extradition between Hong Kong and Macao. The previous world record for a diamond sold in an auction was beaten by the Graff Pink (24,78 carats), auctioned in November, 2010 by 46,2 million dollars by the house Sotheby's in Geneva. As for the price for carat, the record
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