More than €50 billion in assets have been blocked.
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, the Belgian government froze assets belonging to Russian individuals and legal entities for a total amount of 50.5 billion euros. This was reported by De Morgen with reference to the data of the Ministry of Finance of Belgium.
As explained by the spokesman of the Ministry of Finance of Belgium, Francis Adeins, the funds were frozen as a result of sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation for aggression in Ukraine.
To be clarified. , that the frozen amount of 50.5 billion euros, which in particular includes money and shares, belongs to 1,129 individuals and 110 companies from the Russian Federation.
However, Adeins did not say in which specific sanctioned persons or companies were frozen the largest amounts. Although he added that for some individuals and legal entities from Russia, sanctions have been in effect since 2014, when the temporary occupation of Crimea began, but for most of the individuals on the list, restrictive measures were introduced in February of this year.
In April, Bloomberg decided that the European Union had frozen €35 billion ($39 billion) in Russian assets. At the same time, the leader was France, which blocked €23.5 billion. However, the newspaper later reported that EU member states froze almost €14 billion ($14.6 billion) in assets.
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