Dr Gradel claimed that was an "outright lie", adding the museum did not contact him despite making himself available.

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It was ‘frustrating’, he said, that Gradel had only raised concerns about ‘a small number of missing items’ without revealing he had many more in his possession.

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When a Danish dealer named Ittai Gradel blew the whistle on stolen British Museum antiquities showing up online, it was the culmination of a yearslong antiques whodunit.

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