The handover took place at a ceremony in the capital, Addis Ababa, attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's government on Thursday assumed custody of a priceless 18th-century crown that a former refugee had kept hidden in his apartment in the Netherlands for two decades.
He found the gilded crown - which features images of Christ and the Twelve Apostles - in 1998 in a suitcase left behind by a visitor. Sirak assumed the crown had been stolen but worried it would "just disappear again" if he returned it to Ethiopia's leaders, so he kept it in his apartment in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, he told AFP last year.He then contacted Arthur Brand, a renowned Dutch art detective, who brought the story to the Dutch government's attention.
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