$ 330 billion!The United States discloses the value of frozen Russian assets

Jimu News reporter Zhang Yang

On June 29, local time, the U.S. Treasury announced that a multi -country special working group frozen Russian personal funds with $ 30 billion and US $ 300 billion in Russian central bank assets.

The frozen deposit tank (picture source: Russia today)

According to today's Russian report, the official website of the US Treasury issued a statement that this special group called "Russian elite, agent and oligarch group", "frozen personal financial accounts and economic accounts worth more than $ 30 billion in US $ 30 billion Assets in resources.

The statement added that the Russian Central Bank's value of $ 300 billion was also "frozen" by the special working group, and yacht and luxury real estate were also "seized, frozen or seized."

It is reported that the working group was established in March this year to implement Western economic sanctions on Russia. RePO includes financial and judicial officials from the United States, Britain, the European Union Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Canada, and Japan. According to the US Ministry of Finance, REPO members will continue to track and freeze Russian assets in the next few months.

The European Commission also proposed a plan last month using frozen Russian assets to provide funds for post -war reconstruction in Ukraine. However, the US Department of Finance warned that this confiscation was actually illegal, and some voices in the United States questioned the appropriateness of this approach, warning that innocent people may be "punished" because of implication.

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