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The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia is conducting a pre-investigation check into the theft of a collection of Scythian gold, which belongs to four museums in Crimea. This was announced on Wednesday, January 19, by Alexander Molokhov, Deputy Head of the Working Group on International Legal Issues at the Permanent Mission of Crimea to the President of the Russian Federation, TASS.
According to him, the investigators are interviewing those involved in the export of Scythian gold from the territory of Crimea, and find out what was done to return it.
“There are specific officials who gave instructions. They had to organize the transfer, registration of this collection as an integral part of the museum fund of the Russian Federation to the museum fund of our country. This was not done in a timely manner,” Molokhov added.
The items in dispute were sent to the exhibition “Crimea: Gold and the Secrets of the Black Sea” at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in February 2014, before Crimea joined Russia. In total, more than 2 thousand items were sent to the capital of the Netherlands.
On October 26, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled that the Allard Pearson Museum must deposit the gold with Ukraine “until the situation stabilizes” on the peninsula. The court emphasized that it did not consider the issue of its ownership, only the transfer.
The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, called the decision of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal unlawful and outrageous. He stressed that the Scythian gold is an integral part of the historical and cultural heritage of the Crimea, which means that the exhibits should be returned to the funds of the Crimean museums.
In turn, Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Head of the International Committee of the Federation Council, called the court’s decision politicized and biased. He pointed out that Scythian gold had always been stored in the Crimea, and wondered where it could be stored in Ukraine.
On November 17, the director of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum, Tatiana Umrikhina, said that Russia intends to appeal against the decision of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal to transfer the Scythian gold to Ukraine.
Source: IZ
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