Spain seizes Greco-Scythian gold stolen from Ukraine along with forged documents of possession to russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine
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Madrid National Police, in a joint operation with the Ukrainian Security Service, seized ancient gold artifacts valued at EUR 60m stolen from Ukraine after thieves were caught trying to sell them in Madrid.
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The agents have arrested five people, thereby dismantling a criminal network dedicated to the illicit trafficking of cultural property from Ukraine. The seized pieces – gold jewelry of great historical and economic value – had been stolen and illicitly exported from Ukraine, Spanish police said in a statement.In order to whitewash the origin of the pieces, they were accompanied by documents in Ukrainian, English and Spanish to prove that they belonged to the russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine [rOCiU] and transferred to an Orthodox priest living in Madrid.
All the pieces belong to the Greco-Scythian culture of the 8th and 4th centuries BC, police said.
As reported, russians continue looting Ukraine’s treasures. Tauric Chersonesos Museum is robbed, Byzantium gold is gone.
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