Taylor trial: Naomi Campbell testified that he received "dirty rock"

Naomi Campbell testified Thursday before a tribunal in The Hague that it had received "very small stones to look dirty, which it believes it was offered by Charles Taylor after a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela in 1997.

"I was sleeping, someone knocked on my door and I opened it. And two men were there and gave me a small purse and said: + + A gift for you," said the British model in his testimony before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which currently considers the former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

"I opened the little purse the next morning," said Ms. Campbell. "I saw a few small stones, small stones all look dirty," she said, saying he could not remember the exact number of stones: "Three may be two or three".

Naomi Campbell then provided the gift of talking to his agent Carole White and actress Mia Farrow, the next day at breakfast.

"One of them said it was clear from Charles Taylor and I said: + + I suppose so," said Ms. Campbell, her hair and wearing a beige set with a her skirt reaching below the knees.

"I usually see shiny diamonds in a box, you know. I could not guess right away that they were diamonds," said Ms. Campbell.

The prosecution relied on testimony from top model to demonstrate that Charles Taylor has lied in claiming to have never owned a diamond in the rough.

Mr. Taylor, whose trial began in January 2008, is accused of leading covertly rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone by providing arms and ammunition in exchange for diamonds.

"I did not keep them," said Ms. Campbell, adding that he gave the stones to one of his friends who worked for the Fund to help children of Nelson Mandela "to do something with it."

Prosecutors said Mr. Taylor, 62, was issued in September 1997 in South Africa for "sale or exchange of arms for diamonds cons" received from the RUF, which included one offered to Naomi Campbell, 40.

Former Liberian president pleads not guilty of eleven crimes, including murder, rape and enlisting child soldiers during the civil war in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2001, which was 120,000 dead.

The former officer Naomi Campbell, Carole White, U.S. actress Mia Farrow, also present at the dinner and spoke about the diamond in earlier statements, agreed to testify and must file Monday.