A London civil court docket immediately (26) ordered former curator on the British Museum Peter Higgs, accused of stealing tons of – or perhaps 1000’s – of artifacts, to offer the museum with an inventory the objects he’s suspected of taking, and to return these nonetheless in his possession.
I write about him right here in TGP again in August 2023. Higgs was a PHD curator of Greek collections on the British Museum, and in addition tracked down looted artifacts and returning them to their dwelling international locations.
Again then, the Day by day Mail reported:
“The British Museum employee sacked after being accused of stealing priceless treasures was immediately revealed to be a ‘world knowledgeable’ on historic Greece who had labored there for greater than three many years.
Peter John Higgs, 56, was fired this summer time over jewellery, gems and valuable metals spanning greater than three millennia of historical past that vanished from the museum’s vaults over quite a lot of years.”
Higgs has not been arrested by police, however was dismissed from the Museum after objects have been discovered to be ‘lacking, stolen or broken’.
Met Police has not revealed what was stolen. However excessive profile thefts within the Museum embrace a £750,000 Cartier diamond ring, lacking since 2011.
Higgs is presently below Met police investigation, however up to now he has not been charged.
In the meantime, the British Museum has introduced a civil lawsuit in opposition to him.
When the British Museum, one of the visited on the earth, reported in August that tons of of things had been stolen from its assortment or have been lacking, the interior organizational failings led to the resignation of Museum director Hartwig Fischer.
Reuters reported:
“The British Museum, which holds treasures such because the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon marbles, has stated the stolen objects included gold rings, earrings and different items of bijou courting again to historic Greek and Roman durations.
The museum’s lawyer Daniel Burgess stated in court docket paperwork: ‘Whereas the complete extent of the thefts is unknown, it’s presently believed that over 1,800 objects have been stolen or broken and that many tons of of them have been offered or provided on the market by (Higgs)’.
Burgess added that Higgs tried to ‘cowl his tracks by, amongst different issues, utilizing false names, creating false paperwork and manipulating data held on the Museum’s IT techniques’.”
The museum says that, up to now, it has recovered 356 of the lacking objects , and it hopes to get extra again.
“’The objects which were stolen from the museum are of cultural and historic significance’, museum lawyer Daniel Burgess stated in written authorized arguments.”
[…] Chairman of trustees George Osborne has acknowledged that the status of the 265-year-old establishment has been broken by the episode.”
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