1,200 items with a value of around SEK 25 million has disappeared from the Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm, confirms museum director for Swedish Television News.

The suspect was a former employee of the Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm's Old Town.

At the Royal Coin Cabinet, which is responsible for national collections of notes and coins, the inventory showed a frightening result.

We can see that it is in the order of about 1200 objects are away, especially coins. Value is about SEK 25 million, but it's estimates. We have done a great job and inventoried since 2013 saysEva Ramberg, director of the museum Royal Coin Cabinet.

The majority of the items should have disappeared after the last inventory was taken in conjunction with the museum moved to the Old City in 1997.

It's a disaster, it is sad and a huge loss. It's irreplaceable cultural values that have disappeared, says Eva Ramberg.

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