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Exhibit 13.1

**CERTIFICATION**

I, Todd Bruce, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystallex International Corporation (the “Company”), certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 20-F/A – No.4 for the year ended December 31, 2003, of the Company;

2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report; 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report; 

4. The Company’s other certifying    officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure    controls and procedures (as defined in Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Rules    13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as    defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the Company and    have: 

|  | a. | Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared; |
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|  | b.     | Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; |

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|  | c.     | Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosurecontrols and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about theeffectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a end of the periodcovered by this report based on such evaluation; and |

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|  | d.     | Disclosed in this report any change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting; and |

5. The Company’s other certifying    officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal    control over financial reporting, to the Company’s auditors and the audit    committee of the Company’s board of directors (or persons performing    the equivalent function): 

|  | a.     | All significant deficiencies and material weaknessesin the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting whichare reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process,summarize and report financial information; and |
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|  | b. | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involvesmanagement or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internalcontrol over financial reporting. |
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Date: March 16, 2005 

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