France has arrested the assets of Russia. Kremlin reaction

Former Yukos shareholders have achieved the seizure of Russian assets not only in Belgium, but also in France, a source close to Yukos shareholders said.

The presidential aide added that the situation in France and Belgium is "very politicized," but expressed the hope that "common sense will prevail, and we will not go far into this story." This information was officially confirmed on Thursday by presidential aide Andrei Belousov. “We will challenge these decisions both in France and in Belgium, in all countries. Everything that concerns the implementation of the decisions of the Hague court - we believe that a number of legal inaccuracies were made there, we will, of course, challenge it, ”RIA Novosti quotes Belousov.

Later, the head of VTB Andrei Kostin reported that in France on Wednesday they arrested the accounts of Russian companies in the French “daughter” of the state bank. According to Kostin, the arrest was imposed, including on the accounts of Russian diplomatic missions, for which there were sums of "tens of thousands of euros."

“The accounts of diplomatic missions were immediately unfrozen, the accounts of Russian companies were frozen. We solve this problem with lawyers, ”said the state banker.

The evening of June 17 reported that bailiffs of Belgium sent out to the Russian institutions in this country orders that the court ruled to arrest their assets in a lawsuit filed in a suit of Yukos Universal Limited for € 1,65 billion. The bailiffs ordered local companies and banks to provide a list of Russian property on their balance sheet within two weeks.

In July 2014, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay € YNNX billion to former Yukos shareholders. In the same month, the Arbitration Court in The Hague demanded that Russia pay over $ 1,86 billion to ex-Yukos shareholders. Russia considers both decisions illegal and disputes them.

In May, the head of Group Menatep Limited (GML), Tim Osborne, reported that former shareholders of Yukos had filed a lawsuit in the UK, France and the United States and were preparing similar lawsuits in the Belgian and Netherlands courts. After that, the head of the Ministry of Justice, Alexander Konovalov, did not rule out the “most unfavorable” development of events, including the seizure of Russian property abroad.