Robbery at the British Museum, employee risks his job. what was stolen

He worked for 35 years at the British Museum and is now in danger of being sacked. An employee of the famous museum in London has been accused of stealing valuable artifacts and reselling some of them on the Internet. Jewels and precious stones from the 15th and 19th centuries and glassware from 1500 BC. The investigation began when a gemstone expert noticed that some websites were selling what appeared to be priceless finds. Scotland Yard was so notified. However, the British Museum noticed the disappearance of some objects from the warehouses. This is how the mysterious thefts were reconstructed and for months the main suspect was kept under control, unbeknownst to him, by police and British Museum security personnel to collect evidence. Now that the cheating worker has been found, the museum has initiated dismissal procedures and launched an independent security review of the items held to find out if any others are missing or damaged.

Investigations are also ongoing by the Met Police’s Economic Crimes command in London. Most of the lost items were small pieces kept in storage belonging to one of the museum’s collections. None of these have recently been on public display and have been kept primarily for academic and research purposes. “We were extremely concerned when we learned earlier this year that items from the collection had been stolen,” said George Osborne, chairman of the British Museum. “We called the police, imposed emergency measures to increase security, instituted intensive controls over what happened and used all disciplinary powers at our disposal to deal with the person responsible. Our priorities are three: recovering the stolen objects; finding out what could have been done to prevent it; have a plan in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

“The museum apologizes for what happened, we are now determined to make things right,” says Hartwig Fischer, director of the institute. “We are working with outside experts to complete a definitive account of what is missing.” The review of the collections made is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The British Museum has experienced thefts before. In the 1970s, Roman coins and a number of medals disappeared. New eruption in 1993. Again to steal old coins.