CNN: For the first time, the United States transferred the confiscated assets of businessman Malofeev to the needs of Ukraine
For the first time, the United States transferred the confiscated assets of a Russian to the needs of Ukraine. About it informs CNN.
In particular, the TV channel refers to statements by US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Ukraine’s Attorney General Andriy Kostin. 5.4 million dollars confiscated from Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev was transferred to the needs of Kyiv. The funds were kept on the entrepreneur’s account at Sunflower Bank.
Malofeev was included in the US sanctions list in 2014, and then again in April 2022.
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On January 19, the head of the US Department of Justice working group on the application of sanctions against Russia, Andrew Adams, announced plans to start transferring part of the confiscated Russian assets in favor of Ukraine.
Funds “temporarily borrowed”
On January 27, Andrei Klishas, head of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council, said that the European Union had failed the operation to “legalize” blocked Russian assets in order to restore Ukraine. According to the Russian senator, European lawyers did not find any compelling legal grounds to seize the Russians’ assets, but found an opportunity to “temporarily” borrow them in favor of Ukraine.
The operation to legalize the stolen shamefully failed
Earlier, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for the transfer of money frozen in the West to Russia for the restoration of Ukraine. He stressed that Moscow must pay reparations to Kyiv. Johnson added that he would support new laws to seize Russian assets and turn them over to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis also did not rule out that the country would use the frozen Russian assets to restore Ukraine. However, according to him, there is no legal basis for such a step yet.
On January 12, the European Commission supported Estonia’s intention to proceed with the confiscation of Russian financial assets, without waiting for other countries of the association.
The UN General Assembly decided to compensate the damage to Ukraine
In November 2022, the UN General Assembly (GA) adopted a draft resolution on compensation for damage to Ukraine. 94 UN members voted for the document, 14 countries opposed it.
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According to the document, members of the UN General Assembly, together with Kyiv, are recommended to create an “international register of damage, which will serve as documented evidence of the claimed damage, losses and injuries” as a result of “internationally illegal actions of the Russian Federation in or against Ukraine, as well as for promotion and coordination data collection”.
Russia’s permanent representative to the world organization, Vasily Nebenzya, during the meeting pointed out that the resolution of the General Assembly is legally null and void. He assessed the initiative as “an attempt to legalize the illegal”.
Vice Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia Konstantin Kosachev agreed with the diplomat. He stressed that the authors of the document are striving to “give at least the appearance of legitimacy to their obviously illegal actions.” The head of the international committee of the State Duma, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Leonid Slutsky, pointed out that the adopted resolution is “the legalization of outright robbery at the interstate level.”
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