WASHINGTON: A congressional panel on Tuesday sought an urgent review by the US National Archives after agency staff members acknowledged that they did not know if all presidential records f rom Donald Trump`s administration had been turned over.

House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney also asked the Archives, the federal agency charged with preserving government records, to seek a written certification from the Republican former president that he has handed over all presidential records and classified materials.

Maloney, a Democrat, also wants him to confirm he has not made copies or transferred them anywhere other than to that agency or the Justice Department.

Trump is facing a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for retaining government records some marked as highly classified, including `top secret` at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office in January 2021.

The FBI seized more than 11,000 records, including about 100 documents marked as classified, in a courtapproved Aug 8 search at Mar-a-Lago. A federal judge is weighing how the documents should be handled as the invesugadoncondnues.

National Archives staff `recently informed the committee that the agency is not certain whether all presidential records are in its custody,` Maloney wrote in her letter to Debra Wall, acting archivist of the United States.-Reuters