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Ittai Gradel, the gems specialist who uncovered that some 2,000 objects had been stolen from the British Museum’s collection, died on April 28 at 61.

Ittai Gradel died of renal cancer days after museum awarded him medal for ‘very significant contribution’

Dr Ittai Gradel made global headlines after exposing the thefts of many artefacts from the British Museum.