{"id":251311,"date":"2022-03-24T07:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251311"},"modified":"2022-03-25T08:12:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:12:37","slug":"more-russian-money-and-property-seized-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251311","title":{"rendered":"More Russian money and property seized in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 March 22, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Italy and the Netherlands have frozen assets worth $1.7 billion belonging to Russian citizens, in line with the bloc\u2019s sanctions against their country, the media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Italy seized assets worth over $882 million (\u20ac800 million) belonging to wealthy Russians on the EU blacklists, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Tuesday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Italian parliament via video link, ANSA news agency has reported.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Italian government said it had frozen Russian assets worth around \u20ac140 million ($154 million). Among the seized equities were two yachts belonging to billionaires Alexei Mordashov and Gennady Timchenko, and several properties worth \u20ac28 million belonging to other individuals. Later, the government also reported a seizure of what is said to be the largest private sailing-assisted motor yacht in the world, a $580-million vessel linked to Russian businessman Andrei Melnichenko.<\/p>\n

In a separate development, the Netherlands also announced a freeze of more Russian assets on Tuesday. As of March 21, the Netherlands has frozen nearly \u20ac392 million in Russian assets and transactions, Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag wrote in a letter to the\u00a0Lower House of the Dutch Parliament.<\/p>\n

According to the letter published on the website of the Dutch government, the largest part, \u20ac242 million, constitutes assets placed with trust offices. Nearly \u20ac145 million was frozen in banks and almost \u20ac4 million in asset management firms. Nearly \u20ac380,000 has been frozen in pensions.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Netherlands reported a seizure of \u20ac200 million in Russian property. Dutch newspaper the Financieele Dagblad (fd.nl) says its investigation revealed the Netherlands hosts more than \u20ac80 billion in Russian assets.<\/p>\n

EU sanctions against Russia over its conflict with Ukraine have targeted more than 500 Russian individuals or entities, whose assets and financial resources are subject to seizures as EU countries locate them and trace them to their owners. The EU, together with its allies the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the UK, established a task force specifically for that purpose.<\/p>\n

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We are moving inexorably toward conflict, as EU governments seize assets worth more than $1 billion belonging to private Russian citizens <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251312,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251311\/revisions\/251312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}