France freezes Russian assets for 1.2B euros

France has frozen Russian assets worth 1.2 billion euros, not counting the assets of the Central Bank, said Guillaume Valette Valla, head of the Directorate for Intelligence and Combating Underground Financial Schemes under the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the country, Report informs referring to Tribune.

"The amount of frozen Russian assets is 1.2 billion euros, not counting the assets of the Russian Central Bank," Valette Valla said.

These are financial and non-financial assets, for example, real estate.

Earlier, European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said at an informal meeting of EU justice ministers in Prague that 13.8 billion euros of assets owned by Russian businessmen were frozen in the EU.