The former Chancellor and chair of the museum said members of the antiquarian community have been helping the museum recover stolen jewellery and gems
have already been recovered, George Osborne has said.
Art dealer Ittai Gradel first alerted the museum that he had spotted items belonging to the museum for sale online in 2021.The museum carried out an investigation at the time and concluded no items were stolen. “Hartwig Fisher and Jonathan Williams are honourable people who’ve given their lives to working in the museum sector, I don’t myself believe there was a deliberate cover-up, although the review may find that to be the case,” he said.
The institution said Mr Fischer would step down “with immediate effect”, but later clarified he would step down once an interim leadership arrangement was in place.A statement from the British Museum later said Williams had agreed to “voluntarily step back” from his duties until the independent review into the thefts had concluded.In his statement, Mr Fischer admitted the museum “did not respond as comprehensively as it should have in response to warnings in 2021” about the stolen artefacts.
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