“I am firmly convinced that the Scythian gold, exported from Crimea and now being transferred to Ukraine, is the property and belongs to the people of Crimea,” the senator from Crimea said.
She added that Scythian gold is "our historical cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors."
“And no court in the world has the right to deprive the people of their cultural historical heritage.
That is why, by making this kind of decision today, the Dutch court has created an extremely dangerous international legal precedent, ”Kovitidi said.
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal, after several years of proceedings, ruled to transfer the Scythian gold to the ownership of Ukraine.
The collection of Scythian gold was taken from Crimea for an exhibition at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in 2014.
After the Crimea became part of Russia, both the museums of the peninsula and Ukraine declared their rights to gold.
On December 14, 2016, the Amsterdam District Court ruled that the collection should be transferred to Kiev, the Crimean side appealed and changed its lawyers.