Well, if he was talking about pure cocaine, chances are it would be half as pure when hitting the consumers. Hence the 10 tonnes. He does sound silly not mentioning that though.
I grew up (in Norway) with a complete set of Tintin, as well as the animated series on television. I highly recommend these for any comic lover as well as Asterix and all the works by french cartoonist Franquin. Pure brilliance :)
The question is if you can make enough money on the diamonds to flee and avoid prosecution. And ride the gravy train at your chosen destination of course.
Give it to me!