Sudanese Net:
The Spanish police issued a statement announcing that they had stopped the sale of a Sudanese antiquity, which according to the statement was a statue stolen from the Jebel Barkal Museum between 2000-2003.
The Spanish police had monitored the sale of the ancient statue to the Dutch National Museum in Leiden for 100,000 euros using a Sudanese document that Spanish investigations proved to be forged.
The Spanish police statement said that the antiquities dealer provided a digital copy of a handwritten document from the Sudanese government, dated May 27, 1967, which testifies that the artifact arrived in London from Sudan between 1930 and 1940. The statement confirmed that the artifact actually belongs to the Republic of Sudan and that it Illegally offered for sale.
A senior official in the Sudanese Antiquities Authority and a Sudanese antiquities expert, who preferred to withhold his name, revealed in a statement to SBC that the artifact that is the subject of the report is an archaeological statue known as (the Shabti). He added, “In my belief, it is one of the 3 Shabti that were stolen from the Jebel Barkal Museum in the year 2014.”
He added, “There is a lot of false information in the Spanish draft investigation in general, and we will act out of our responsibility to follow up the matter with the competent authorities.” The Sudanese antiquities expert pointed out that the Sudanese antiquities authorities had opened a report about the disappearance of the three statues in 2014, and investigations are still underway.
The statement pointed out that the investigation began when the Dutch authorities sent the Historic Heritage Department of the Spanish National Police a document confirming that an antiquities dealer from Barcelona would sell a statue of Sudanese origin in the museum for 100,000 thousand euros. The Spanish authorities have begun conducting investigations in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Spain, and the person under investigation will be responsible for the crime of fraud through his involvement in the sale and circulation of assets of artistic, historical and cultural heritage.
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