Deripaska gave advice on protecting Russian assets frozen by the West

Russia should condemn Western figures involved in attempts to "gut" the country's illegally frozen financial assets, as well as demand the confiscation of their property. This advice was given on August 31 by businessman Oleg Deripaska.

"Don't open your mouth at someone else's loaf! <...> Only a guilty verdict passed by a Russian court will be able to stop them, where, in addition to the time limit, the confiscation of each participant's property should also be provided for," he said on his Telegram channel.

According to the businessman, everyone should be punished — from secretaries who take shorthand notes of meetings of European committees to lawyers who offer their "valuable" advice to EU ministers.

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In the final document of the European Union (EU) summit, which was signed on March 20 by 26 of the 27 states of the community, it was reported that the EU would continue to hold frozen assets of Russia. It was noted that Russia's assets should remain immobilized until the conflict ends.

At a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council on June 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out that Western countries' statements that they were going to appropriate Russian gold and foreign exchange assets were not even an attempt to steal them, but open intentions to carry out a robbery.

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