EgyptDailyNews - A Source at the Grand Egyptian Museum revealed details regarding criminal charges against a number of museum employees on charges of embezzlement of an antiquity and forgery.

The source who preferred to remain anonymous said in statements that the incident of the statue’s embezzlement and forgery began in 2012 and was discovered in an inventory in 2019.

He added that the inventory revealed tampering with the records of an antique statue at the museum’s stores, by deleting its data from the database.

The matter was immediately referred to the authorities, which in turn were keen to conduct investigations in complete secrecy to discover the culprits and confirm the authenticity of the incident of embezzlement of the statue and forgery of official documents.

The defendants took advantage of their jobs to steal an antique bronze statue of Osiris, dating back to the late Pharaonic era. The receipt of the antique statue, dated October 2012, was stolen and its papers and records were falsified.

The source stressed that the current leadership of the museum is not complicit with this crime since it took place in 2012 and at that time they were not employed at the museum.