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The Hague, June 9 The Dutch Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal to transfer the Scythian gold collection to Ukraine, according to a ruling published in Friday.
«In October 2021, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Scythian gold should be transferred to Ukraine. This decision remains in force. So today the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled,» the court ruling says.
Amsterdam Court of Appeal On October 26, 2021, he decided that the collection of Scythian gold should be transferred to Ukraine. In January 2022, Crimean museums filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. After that, the Supreme Court began an administrative process on the case.
The collection, which has remained in the Netherlands since 2014, contains unique artifacts belonging to the East Crimean Museum-Reserve, the Central Museum of Taurida, the Bakhchisarai Historical and Cultural Museum — reserve and museum-reserve «Tauric Chersonese». The collection, consisting of almost two thousand artifacts, was taken to an exhibition at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in early February 2014, even before the reunification of Crimea with Russia. In August 2014, a museum in the Netherlands decided not to transfer the exhibits to either Ukraine or Crimea until the decision of a competent judge or agreement between the parties.