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Based on pay slips the BBC has seen, one submitted to the court, Koidu mine workers do appear to have experienced a substantial pay cut in real terms. While the company has been selling its diamonds on the global market in dollars, salaries paid in local currency have not kept pace. By early last year the president's wife Fatima Bio had intervened. She was taking the mine workers' side in what was becoming an increasingly vitriolic dispute.