LKI Appoints Ben-Shushan as Coordinator of International Manufacturing
February 10, 11Ben-Shushan will work with these African facilities and report directly to Senior Vice President Charlie Rosario at the company’s New York headquarters.
“LKI will continue to expand cutting operations in Southern Africa,” said LKI President and CEO Leon Tempelsman. “We constantly seek to improve the alignment of the company’s business objectives with the stated interests of producing countries to develop their beneficiation capacities.
“Mr. Ben-Shushan’s many years of manufacturing experience and his up to date knowledge of existing and upcoming technological innovations, will add to the efficiency and productivity of LKI’s multiple manufacturing facilities to enhance their competiveness.”
Ben-Shushan made headlines last year when he was arrested in Namibia in connection to a diamond theft at LKI’s NamGem polishing facility. Following an investigation, he was cleared of any complicity in the theft, with all charges being dropped in November 2010.
LKI backed Ben-Shushan, expressing trust in him, as the promotion indicates.
Tempelsman recently told IDEX Online that, “As the relevant prosecutor’s offices indicated at the time of withdrawing the charges, no one has been cleared of complicity in the theft as comprehensively as Mr. Ben Shushan; and LKI, which he continues to represent, and as the party that suffered the actual loss of the theft retains complete faith in his integrity.”