Finance Ministry spokesman Guillaume Valette-Valla said that the frozen Russian assets are financial and non-financial instruments, such as real estate worth a total of 1.2 billion euros.
Valette-Valla noted that the freezes are consistent with the European regulation "which has established a list of persons approved by Brussels."
According to the official, the priority is to prevent the risk of circumventing sanctions through family ties or a tax optimization mechanism. In addition, since the end of spring, the department has been considering the possibility of transferring to the judiciary criminal cases on the laundering of property and money obtained through corruption.
Recall that at the end of March, France froze the assets of the Bank of Russia in the amount of 22 billion euros.