Library director charged with selling copies of ancient book

Charles Davis sent over This Rather Sad Story on The director of Romania’s National Library who was arrested on charges of illegally selling abroad copies of a precious 8th century book, defrauding the state of US$1.5 million.

Copies of the Codex Aureus, a church manuscript from the Carolingian period written in gold letters, were sold to museums in Germany as well as to a Swiss publishing house, police said.