In France, called the amount of blocked Russian assets

Russia's assets worth €1.2 billion were frozen in France without taking into account the volume of blocked property of the Central Bank. The European Commission named France among the six countries

France has frozen €1.2 billion of Russian assets, and this amount does not include the property of the Central Bank, Guillaume Valette-Vala, HEAD of the intelligence unit of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic, told La Tribune.

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“These are financial and non-financial assets. These blockings are based on the European regulation, which establishes a list of persons approved by Brussels,” said the representative of the Ministry of Finance.

By mid-July, only six EU states were actively involved in the blocking of Russian accounts (there are 27 countries in the EU), European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said in an interview with BLOOMBERG. He pointed out that France, together with five countries - Germany, Austria, Ireland, Luxembourg and Belgium, blocked € 12.7 billion. This is comparable to the total amount of blocked Russian accounts by all European countries - € 13.9 billion, the European Commissioner emphasized.

Reynders noted that a task force set up by the European Union in March to search for and freeze Russian assets helped improve coordination on this issue, due to which there was a “significant increase” in the number of assets frozen in a number of countries.

The Central Bank estimated the investments of Russians in foreign securities in the conditions of freezing

By the end of March, France blocked the assets of the Russian "oligarchs" who were in French jurisdiction, for €850 million, the volume of the assets of the Central Bank of RUSSIA "immobilized" by the country was then €22 billion. The total amount of frozen funds of the Bank of Russia by the end of May by all EU countries was € 23 billion

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At the end of July, the French authorities initiated an investigation designed to reveal the origin of "significant real estate assets" of Russian entrepreneurs in France. The case was opened after a complaint filed in Paris at the end of May by the anti-corruption non-governmental organization Transparency International (its Russian branch was recognized by the Russian Ministry of Justice as an NGO-foreign agent). “Entrepreneurs and high-ranking officials” were suspected of money laundering, TASS specified.

The Security Council called the freezing of Russia's assets "the greatest theft in history" Politics

The Russian authorities have repeatedly criticized the actions of Western countries to freeze accounts. “These are absolutely honest legal entrepreneurs. They were robbed. They were robbed in the same way that travelers were robbed with the help of Smith and Wesson in the Wild West,” said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Russian Security Council Secretary Dmitry Medvedev compared the sanctions against Russian businessmen with the Inquisition. “They themselves came up with the accusation, they themselves tortured, they themselves passed the sentence, they themselves burned the heretic,” he believes.

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