Crimean Scythian gold collector told his gang robbed

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As it turned out, searches performed in salons, antique, directly connected with the case of werewolves from the staff of the Office of State Guard and Special Forces officer SBU exposed as two years ago, the capital of the Anti-Organized Crime. The members of this gang is not only a long and successful businessman robbed, for which have already received a term. Criminals are also suspected of armed attacks on jewelers and collectors, specializing in the Scythian period ... Of special interest members of criminal groups showed the owners of the products of Scythian gold. In a criminal case, which is now under investigation by Main Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine, appear the names of several people's deputies.
- In 2007, in an antique shop in Sebastopol, where I often went with me said an unknown man - recalls Andrei Ivanovich. - It turned out we were interested in the same thing. Laughed at the coincidence, we exchanged phone numbers and within a year from time to time call up. In late 2007, my new friend unexpectedly offered to give me in Kiev to meet interesting, as he said, and people. Without waiting for the trick, I went to the capital. When we drove up to the building of the Presidential Secretariat, I began to suspect that these people were.

A friend took me to the side entrance, where we have already waited a Kibitsky Alex (as it turned out later, the ringleader of the group). At the entrance Kibitsky presented identification card of the presidential guard, so inside we went without complications. In his study, he showed pictures of various historical items related to the Scythian period: the golden Riton, twisted torque depicting animal heads, a glass bowl with a gold base bracelets. These pictures he showed for me to understand what interested him personally, as well as some senior officials, with whom, as he said Kibitsky, he communicates closely. He also added that can act as an intermediary between me and these people.

On returning to Crimea, I several times through our mutual friend passed on to Kibitskogo photos antiques, but no transaction or exchange of values between us was not.

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Strange events in my life began to occur in about a year after they met with Kibitskim. In early 2008, I arrived a few days in the capital. Here with me suddenly contacted an old acquaintance, the Kiev businessman. Knowing where I was staying, he said to me in the hotel. Knowing about my passion for antiques, he offered to meet with the assistant of a deputy, also a collector. Assistant deputy on the laptop showed me pictures of some of the most valuable icons, paintings, expensive china and proposed to change these things on something of Scythian gold. I asked him why he was interested in precisely Scythian gold. He replied that these were the subjects deputy collector, whom he represents.

I promised to think over his proposal and began to settle with the waiter. In the evening the phone rang from the assistant. - To run the assistant asked, when I went down the hall. Finally the assistant told me that a businessman who brought us together, I for my own good do not sorted out.

Returning home, I broke off contact with Kibitskim and his friend. Therefore, when a month in Kiev held antique gathering, I drove there with a clear conscience.

Do not have time to settle in the hotel - again call the same Kiev businessman. The point, they say, very urgent, you and I want to meet one MP. Personally. Setting up the phone, I reasoned: city center, crowded place, what with me there could happen? And went.

In the cafe I was expecting a serious man with a deputy's badge on the lapel of his expensive jacket. Shaking hands, he immediately went to inquiries about the Scythian gold. Then he said he could buy the product right now. To confirm his words pulled from under the table diplomat and an open set before me. Case was fully packed with bundles of money. There were about three hundred thousand dollars.

Seeing that the buyer is really serious, I confessed that in Kiev, I have kept three rare products of the Scythian period, and I can show them. The MP agreed to wait in a cafe, while my friend and I'll ride around the city. Just an hour later he had carefully studied brought me things: gold rhyton, decorated with an elegant figure of a goat, a massive hryvnia neckband and two wooden bowl in a gold frame. - Come from nowhere a few people in the form of special forces pushed us to a friend in the stands next to a minibus. They confiscated the money and mobile phones, handcuffed. Then submitted to the deputy esbeushnik ordered the driver to take us in Goloseyevsky rayupravlenie police. On the windshield of a van shone spetspropusk, so the driver sped through the city with the maximum speed.

But Holosiyiv management, we have not reached. Ibid, near the cemetery, the criminals (the fact that this is not a special operation, and robbery, I have no doubt) being thrown out of the car my friend. I also took the side of the Kharkov array and landed right on the South Bridge. Fortunately for me, criminals are not seized the passport and poorly searched his back pocket, where lay and 200 hryvnia a plane ticket. I was able to get home ...

- What happened to your friend?

- He is in order. Sworn never to apply only to law enforcement. But I still dare to say about the raid in the SBU. Moreover guessed who the customer. When we drove in the car, the criminals have repeatedly called nickname Kirbitos. All this I laid out in the SBU. From esbeushnikov also learned that, it turns out, this criminal group has long been known to them and it is operational development. Then, in the secret service took my phone number to report on the investigation. For two years, waiting for when they call me.

- I know that your life has been several assassination attempts. - The next after my visit to the SBU day to my hotel there came an old friend, also a collector. He came with a bottle of brandy, trying to persuade him to drink. Thank God, I refused. Only recently, the investigator learned that the gang members who had sent this man to poison me.

The second attempt on my life happened after a couple more months. Two men attacked me in the yard. One hit on the head with a stick, the other pulled out a packet with values.

Over the past two years on my life attempted four times. The last case occurred just a few days. In the entryway of my house a youngster pounced on me with a knife. I managed to dodge and kick to knock weapons out of his hands. (Igor rolls up his trouser leg, revealing yet zazhivshuyu wound in the leg.)

- And you continue to go without protection?

- All my life to the protection does not resemble, - says the collector. - A small consolation was that even though I have found the stolen valuables. Several weeks ago, employees of the Main Department for Combating Organized Crime Affairs of Ukraine invited me to identify confiscated in an antique shop products. The police showed me a catalog of antiquities, compiled in a collection of well-known deputy, who was called the owner of this store. For pictures, I recognized not only things stolen from me in February 2008, but the values taken from the Crimea by bandits me six months later. Also among the hundreds of exhibits I was able to recognize things that belonged to my friends-collectors, too, had been robbed ...

- You do not suppose that it could be just like the product?

- Objects of the Scythian culture is precisely distinguished by their originality. In ancient times, the wizard does not replicate their products. Similar, could only be paired ornaments, bracelets or earrings. And for each of these items is the expert opinion of the Ministry of Culture.

- How much you would appreciate a collection of law enforcers seized? They say it is much richer than that which belongs to the state.

- Direct connection between the quantity and weight of products and their price is not. Everything depends on the uniqueness of each product. But experts have previously estimated the entire collection of two billion three hundred million dollars.

Only now, it worries me more. Knowing the names of people to whom after a robbery caught my things, I do not see any way out how to get them yourself. This week, to help the investigation initiated by the Interior Ministry created a special commission of members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute of Archeology of Ukraine and the National History Museum. - First, he served as their small orders, and later becoming acquainted with the black archaeologists began haggling myself.

Subsequently Kibitsky decided that collectors pay generally is not necessary if the thing can be picked up strength. Around him he gathered a dozen accomplices, mainly from among the active members of the special. Were in his group and previous convictions. Thanks to one of the accomplices, who served as deputy director of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, the criminals were able to track the routes chosen victims, listen to their phone conversations ...

Collectors themselves acknowledged that the bandits were too well aware of the specifics of the antique business and has detailed information about who is a collectors treasure what she knows. It turned out that a rather limited range of collectors and archaeologists black criminals have had their gunners, and who supplied them with information.

During the robbery they used not only identity and shape, but the service weapon. The victims did not apply to law enforcement agencies, and criminals with every new robbery became more cynical.

The case of an attack on a collector in the center of the capital - a bright example. After that they gave on the street Institutskaya fixed even cameras of the National Bank of Ukraine!

Interestingly, of all the gang members actually lived in a big way only leader. Paid mistresses, owned three cars and a house in the Crimea. Other participants, we can say were interrupted kopecks.

P.S. The names of all the actors of the story changed.

Each curator there own network among private collectors, the collections are often stored and restored antiques. These unique items are used to pay for the information coming from foreign agents, financing other secret intelligence activities. Controlled as their collection of antiques and archaeological values remained practically without government supervision. A similar story in the early 90's occurred in Kirovograd with a unique collection of Alexander Ilyin, who after the death of the collector gradually, over two decades, uncountable people close to the local bureaucracy. (This case was described in our paper on Oct. 25, 2002.)

The result of the weakening of state control on the antiques market in the post-Soviet countries has been incredible in scale movement of cultural property abroad and the unprecedented development of black archeology. Illegal mining Trypil'ska ceramics, Scythian gold and ancient coins became profitable and fashion game for the Ukrainian oligarchs. At a time when official archaeological expedition could not find the money for such basic items as shovels, for they were excavated in the incredible scale, using the most modern technology. Today, legalized and transferred to state museums is just a small portion of these collections. And investigative practice indicates that the real law enforcement officers can not get close to such collections from the fact that its owners enjoy parliamentary or diplomatic immunity. The collection of so-called Scythian gold and its symbol - a gold pectoral from Tolstoy The graves - widely known throughout the world. The richest collection of products in Ukraine, the Scythian period are in the National Historical Museum, the Museum Treasure of Ukraine and the treasury of the National Bank of Ukraine. http://www.facts.kiev.ua/archive/201...305/index.html

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Law enforcement authorities conceal one of the largest antiquities seizures in recent years
As it became known, August 18, 2010 in Kiev units to combat organized crime, the number of searches were carried out in antique shops.
 
In searches of the staff took part GUBOP and UBOP Kiev and region. Institutskaya opposite the National Bank of Ukraine, said a source in law enforcement.

Officially, the law enforcement agencies refuse to confirm this information. But witnesses, living on the street. Institutska, noted that it is the perimeter of the building on August 18 st. Institutska, which is a shop, was cordoned off by police, and traffic on streets closed to traffic for several minutes.

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They focus on china and PDI of gold and bronze, I think.

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This is not the articulation ... tree for 2,5 thousand years privratilos fully dust ...
In general, wondering how things were in a private collection ...
Typically, these curiosities would have to walk from the royal tombs of the rich ... So looted, and so is for this alone should be planted ...
Or my personal guess ... these things are complete shit, which Provisional Government tried to ..