Rolandas Kishkis, Director of the Lithuanian Financial Crimes Investigation Service, said that the amount of funds for legal entities and individuals of the Russian Federation frozen by the Lithuanian authorities is more than 80 million Euros. TASS.
According to Kishkis, the amount of frozen capital and property doubled in 2023. In addition, information about suspicious transactions began to come in twice as often.
The director of the Lithuanian Financial Crimes Investigation Service also noted that all the restrictive measures implemented by the special service are now challenged in the courts.
Previously, according to the results of the first quarter of 2023, the international custodian Euroclear’s can take € 734 million interest income from blocked Russian assets.
For the first half of 2022, this figure was €110 million and for 2023 €821 million. At the same time, Euroclear expects further growth in interest income as blocked fund accumulation continues.
Prior to that, Soir newspaper, referring to a message from the Belgian government, wrote that the Kingdom of Belgium received 625 million Euros in 2022 as a result of taxation of income from 250 billion Euros of frozen Russian assets.