Klishas announced the failure of the EU operation to confiscate Russian assets

There are no legal grounds for blocking Russian assets in the EU, the operation “to legalize the stolen” has failed. Thus, Andriy Klishas, ​​head of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council, commented on the Bloomberg publication on a mechanism found by EU lawyers that allows legal use of part of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine.

“The poor “European lawyers” did not find “clear legal grounds” for the arrest of Russian assets (but they are arrested in the EU, without grounds), but they found an opportunity to “temporarily” use Russian assets to restore Ukraine. The operation to legalize the stolen shamefully failed, ”- wrote he is in his Telegram channel.

Earlier today Bloomberg, citing sources wrotethat the lawyers of the European Commission have found a way to legally use part of the frozen assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the restoration of Ukraine.

For this, a number of conditions must be met. In particular, the assets must not be expropriated, which means that they will later have to be returned to Russia. In addition, only liquid Russian assets can be directed to the restoration of Ukraine, the sources add. According to Bloomberg, we are talking about the amount of at least 33.8 billion euros, which are in the EU.

In total, Western countries blocked 300 billion euros of reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and 19 billion euros of private funds of Russian businessmen, said in November 2022 the head of the EC, Ursula von der Leyen. Then she suggested create a structure for managing Russian assets. According to her, the blocked funds of the Russian Central Bank and the assets of Russian oligarchs confiscated due to sanctions should be combined into a fund, the funds of which should be invested, and the profit from these investments should be used for compensation payments to Ukraine.