4 hours agoSCANDAL: Police were barred from seeking stolen artifacts on Queen's property
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)British police had had it banned from searching on the Queen's private properties for stolen or looted artifacts after ministers had offered her personal exemption from the law protecting world cultural property, The Guardian has discovered. Buckingham Palace and the government are refusing to say that it was deemed necessary [...]
Buckingham's palace and the government are refusing to say it was seen necessary to offer the Queen that kind of exception that prevents police from searching at Balmoral and Sandringham.
Queen's spokesman denied any suggestion that stolen artifacts were being held or looted in the private properties of the monarchy, It's Albanian Periscope.
The Department for Digitalisation, Culture, Media and Sports, which gave the monarchy this special treatment, gave no comment on whether this was proposed by royal advisers or ministers.
However, the documents provided appear to indicate that the department had used vague languages in a parliamentary bill clouding the intentions of this exemption from the public.
In February, The Guardian had published documents showing how the Queen had used a process that secretly lobbied at ministers to change a draft legislation.
