The United States decided not to return the frozen assets of Russian businessmen

The US authorities will not return the frozen assets of Russian businessmen, said National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The quote was cited by BLOOMBERG journalist Jordan Fabian on Twitter.

“Because we are seizing these assets, our goal is not to get them back. Our goal is to make better use of them,” Sullivan said. According to him, the US administration is actively working to ensure that sanctioned businessmen are unable to return their expensive yachts and housing.

Dozens of Russian businessmen fell under US sanctions: for example, the founder of USM Holdings Alisher Usmanov, the HEAD of Transneft Nikolai Tokarev, the main owners of the Northern Sea Route (SMP Bank) Boris and Arkady Rotenberg.

At the end of March, US senators prepared a bill that proposes to use the proceeds from assets confiscated from Russian businessmen to help Ukraine. it is assumed that the money will go to a fund to help Ukrainian refugees and the reconstruction of Ukraine, which will be managed by the State Department and the US Agency for International Development.

Press Secretary of the President of RUSSIA Dmitry Peskov said that "honest" Russian entrepreneurs, whose property was confiscated due to sanctions, were robbed, "like in the Wild West."