03/09/2020 - 16:20
- Clarín.com
- Police
Three employees of the National Historical Museum, which depends on the Ministry of Culture, were arrested for stealing more than 900 coins belonging to the Roman Empire that were then sold to collectors.
Judicial sources indicated that the three detainees worked in the maintenance area of the museum and were denounced by the collectors themselves who bought some of the coins and then began to suspect that they were stolen.
It was on February 14 that four men showed up at a trade to buy and sell used items and offered 133 old coins .
According to the owner of the store, he himself agreed to pay almost 200,000 pesos for the coins. The vendors, meanwhile, provided their first names and were registered in the security cameras.
The investigation fell to federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan and federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, who ordered a series of raids, some of them at the National Historical Museum, after which the suspects were arrested.
Source: Télam
