The current rules do not allow the use of 1.3 billion euros frozen in France, the assets of Russian businessmen, however, the European Commission (EC) works on the legalization of such a step.
This was announced in an interview with LCI TV channel spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry Ann-Cler Lyandr.
“At the current stage, European sanctions provide for freezing, that is, blocking funds, and they cannot be confiscated without a court decision in connection with the bypass of these sanctions. Thus, now there is no way to transfer them to Ukraine, but you know that the EC has decided to work with new proposals in order to transfer these funds to Ukraine and evaluate to what extent we can use these funds to ensure their restoration of the country at the expense of them, ”said Lyandr.
“There are many types of assets frozen in the framework of European sanctions, for example, 300 billion euros of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (in the European Union – Ed.) And 1.3 billion euros of Russian oligarchs, which were frozen directly in France,” she explained.
On Thursday, Bloomberg, citing an internal document of the European Union, informed that, according to the legal service of the community, no one knows where 86% of the blocking assets of the Central Bank of Russia are located, the total volume of which it estimates at $ 258 billion.