EU about freezing assets of Russian oligarchs

The European Union to date has found and froze the assets of Russian companies and individuals in the amount of 21.5 billion euros.

This was announced by the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders at a press conference in Brussels.

“To date, we have already frozen 21.5 billion euros of the money of Russian companies and oligarchs,” Rynders said.

He emphasized that the EU continues to work on the search and freezing of Russian resources and is looking for a legal formula to transfer these funds to Ukraine.

According to him, the EU also works intensively to search and block the funds of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.