Bern demands from Kiev to provide evidence of the illegal origin of gold, which was allegedly stolen and secretly exported from Ukraine to those displaced as a result of a state coup from the post of President of the country Viktor Yanukovich. This is on Wednesday, September 6, TSN reports with reference to the response received in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.

"The return of the frozen assets of the Ukrainian authorities can occur only after their illegal origin is established by the court. However, until the final judicial decision on the confiscation of these assets is not issued by Ukrainian judicial authorities, "the ministry explained..

Discovered by Kiev for the Alpine ridge frozen assets are estimated at 70 million Swiss francs (4.2 billion rubles). "The assessment of the amount can be changed depending on a number of criteria, such as currency fluctuations, the cost of equity, removal of persons subject to freezing, partial release of frozen assets, and so on," emphasized Berne.

Earlier, on September 4, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko told reporters that in one of the banks of the Swiss Confederation found gold belonging to a close associate of the runaway Yanukovych.

"I can not yet tell who owns the cell with gold, so as not to damage the interests of the investigation. But I can confirm - a large amount of gold found in bank cells in Switzerland, and belongs to a person close to the so-called "Yanukovych family" "- quoted on Monday Lutsenko portal ZN. ua. Prosecutor General added that now Kiev is taking measures to arrest the discovered gold.

On the same day, his deputy, Yevgeny Enin, in an interview with the Insider, pointed out significantly that "a few weeks ago, in the framework of cooperation with one European country, information was received on the arrest of a large batch of gold, it is about more than half a ton".

In addition, he added the deputy prosecutor, currently in different European countries, an amount equivalent to about $ 200 million. Names of states Enin did not specify.

Recall, after the "revolution of hydrology" in the winter of 2014.

a crowd of supporters of the Maidan rushed to establish people's justice at the residence of the head of state Mezhyhirya, where, according to widespread rumors in the mass media and among Ukrainians, the main value of Yanukovych - the golden loaf. However, by reversing and partially crushing a high-ranking dacha, the revolutionary masses could not find the exhibit.

And in May 2016 g. it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Kiev region closed the criminal case on March 26, 2015. open on the disappearance of values ??from the residence Mezhyhirya, counting the golden loaf of Yanukovych myth.