Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander BastrykinMOSCOW, Jan 19Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to report on the progress of the procedural check carried out on the fact of non-return of the Scythian gold to the Crimean museums, according to the agency's website. Russia to provide the necessary assistance to colleagues from the regional division in establishing the circumstances of the incident,» the message says.Shvydkoi advised Russia not to interfere in the dispute over «Scythian gold» in 2014, it was taken to Amsterdam for the exhibition «Crimea — Gold and the Secrets of the Black Sea.» The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled in October last year that the Scythian gold should be transferred to Ukraine. At the same time, the director of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum, Tatyana Umrikhina, said that the decision would be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. with Scythian goldA collection of Scythian gold from four Crimean museums, about 2 thousand artifacts, was taken to an exhibition at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in early February 2014, even before Crimea was reunited with Russia. In August 2014, a museum in the Netherlands decided not to transfer the exhibits to neither Ukraine nor Crimea until the decision of the competent judge or agreement between the parties. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled in October that the collection of Scythian gold from Crimean museums should be transferred to Ukraine.
