Spanish police, together with Ukrainian authorities, recently seized antique gold jewelry brought illegally from Ukraine. This concerns eleven pieces of jewelry that are reportedly worth around 60 million euros.
The total of eleven pieces of jewelry seized include a gold belt decorated with ram’s heads, elaborately crafted breast jewelry and necklaces set with precious stones from the time of Greco-Scythian culture between the 8th and 4th centuries before the birth. of Christ, police said Monday. The Scythians were an equestrian people in the steppes north of the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine and southern Russia.
The jewelry, which is of great historical value, was last seen at an exhibition in the Ukrainian capital Kiev between 2009 and 2013. They were then illegally deported some time before May 2016.
Priest as forger
Three suspects – two Spaniards and a Ukrainian priest – have been arrested, police said. They are all suspected of being part of a gang that wanted to sell the jewelry. The arrested priest, with the help of a fellow countryman, forged documents showing that the jewelry was the property of an Orthodox church. It was not disclosed which of the various Orthodox churches in Ukraine were involved.
After inspection at the National Archaeological Museum, the finds are returned to Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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