Ukraine’s SBU security service, along with Ukraine’s Economic Security Bureau and the Spanish police, detained a criminal group that smuggled Scythian gold from Ukraine to sell in Europe, the SBU reported on Oct. 24.
Police in Madrid have seized 60 million euros ($63.7 million) worth of ancient gold artifacts that had been stolen from Ukraine, the Spanish Interior Ministry announced on Oct. 23. In a joint operation with the the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Spanish police seized 11 pieces of Scythian gold that had been "stolen and illicitly exported from Ukraine" in the first few months of 2016.
Mumbai's Borivali police apprehended two thieves who had allegedly cheated a 72-year-old devotee of a Jain temple by deceitfully taking her gold ornaments.