Evangelical pastor dabbled in diamonds
During the years Lezoka ministered to his parish at the Bethel Christian Community Church in Ahuntsic, he also conscious gemology, and appeared to head a Kinshasa-based export mechanism specialized in diamond trading.
Lezoka, 47, signed up for a weekend workshop on diamond grading in 2009 at the Montreal Educational institution of Gemology, according to the institution's president.
"He was just like a stable, regular student, except I was a bit surprised to have in my class a gentleman who was a priest, and interested in diamonds," said Odile Civitello. "But I know he's African, so this is not surprising that someone from the Congo would have an interest in diamonds."
CBC Information has obtained a business card listing Lezoka as boss general of a diamond export agency in Kinshasa, Congo's principal.
The agency had a valid vendor's licence at one time, but according to the former secretary vague of the Ministry of Mines in Congo, it has now gone bankrupt.
The bishop also spoke about the diamond trade with people in his entourage, according to a former associate.
"He showed me a wee quantity [of diamonds], a sample if you will," that Lezoka carried around in a handkerchief, said Abdo Malalaoui, a Tunisian businessman who once collaborated with the reverend on a housing project in Africa.
Lezoka told him he got the diamonds in Congo, said Maalaoui.
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