Since March 1, a “task force” is responsible for identifying the assets and property of the personalities on a list stopped by Brussels. But passing gel to seizure is still not legally possible for the moment.
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This is the most visible part of the sanctions taken with regard to Russian power in France. So far, the executive refused to communicate a global figure on the extent of the financial measures taken in the hex against the economic or political figures deemed to be close to President Vladimir Putin.
Sunday, March 20, the Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno The Mayor, Guest of the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI, finally gave a first estimate: since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, nearly 850 million of euros of assets of Russian oligarchs were “immobilized” – that is to say frozen – in the territory, he announced.
“We immobilized for 150 million euros of accounts of individuals, lines of credit in France, in French institutions,” the Mayor said, as well as “for 539 million euros of real estate On French territory, corresponding to thirty properties or apartments, and we stopped two yachts for 150 million euros, “detailed the minister. In addition, “22 billion euros of assets of the Russian central bank” have also been frozen.
The 1 er March, the tenant of Bercy had announced the constitution of a “task force” composed of financial intelligence agents (TRACFIN), the Treasury, Customs and The Public Finance Branch to identify the bank accounts as quickly and exhausively as possible as possible, Luxury Ships, Properties on the Côte d’Azur and other cottages in the Alps of the personalities listed on a list stopped by Brussels. A complex work, especially since the people concerned often operate behind screen companies and other financial fixtures.
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Bercy’s “Task Force” also has the role of permanently informing financial institutions (banks, insurance, asset managers …), but also notaries, lawyers or real estate agents. To them to verify whether their customers are measuring asset gel, identifying the accounts concerned or by prohibiting the sale of real estate, and to report it to the Treasury Branch in Bercy . The other objective of the “task force” was to trace new names to add on the black list of European sanctions. “We made up dozens of names,” said Sunday night in Bercy, no more details.
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