French law enforcement freezes Russian accounts at VTB subsidiary

10:11, 19.06.2015 1 min read

French law enforcement bodies have frozen the accounts of Russian companies and diplomatic missions at the French subsidiary of VTB, a bank spokesman told Interfax.

It was reported earlier that Russian organizations in Belgium, with the exception of diplomatic representations, received a document from the bailiff service regarding a freeze on the Russian state property at their disposal and on their debts to the Russian state.

The document indicates that the freeze is being carried out on the order of Belgian arbitration court from June 18, 2014 in the lawsuit brought by Yukos Universal Ltd.

Sberbank of Russia Deputy CEO Sergei Gorkov told journalists that the bank had not received information from its subsidiaries abroad concerning a freeze on the accounts of Russian companies under the Yukos lawsuit.