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Alexey Chepa: EU can confiscate Russian assets only with big consequences for itself

The European Union can confiscate the frozen Russian assets, but with great losses and consequences for itself. This was stated by the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Deputy Head of the faction “A JUST RUSSIA – FOR THE TRUTH” Alexei Chepa.

Earlier, Bloomberg wrote that the EU authorities came to the conclusion that the community cannot legally confiscate the frozen Russian assets worth about €200 billion. confiscate Russian funds.

“There is no honest way to steal money. There are attempts to justify their actions. The EU is trying to come up with the same thing, lawyers are already twitching, trying to figure out what they can do in order to “honestly” take this money. But they are well aware that we have retaliatory steps that we will take, and at the same time, simple businesses that are not interested in these actions will suffer,” the parliamentarian said.

As a response, he cited Russia’s ability to expropriate Western property. Aleksey Chepa noted that for the time being Moscow does not agree to this, because it does not want to break ties with “normal European companies.”

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