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Arrests in Spain: Antique jewelry seized from Ukraine

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HANDOUT – Spanish police, in cooperation with Ukrainian authorities, have seized antique gold jewelry with an estimated total value of 60 million euros. Photo: Spanish National Police/AP/dpa – NOTE: For editorial use only and only with full reference to the credits above

Three Spaniards and two Ukrainians, including a priest from one of the country’s Orthodox churches, have been arrested, police said on Monday. The total of eleven pieces of jewelry seized included 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, said the police will continue with you. The Scythians were an equestrian people in the steppes north of the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine and southern Russia.

The jewelry with great historical value was last seen at an exhibition in the Ukrainian capital Kiev between 2009 and 2013. They were illegally deported sometime before May 2016. According to the police report, those arrested were 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 initially disclosed which of the various Orthodox churches in Ukraine were involved.

The jewelry would now be examined at the National Museum of Archeology and later returned to Ukraine, a police spokesman said upon request.

(SDA)

Source: Blick

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