Boats, helicopters, art: Europe freezes $32 billion of oligarchs' assets

[Roadvirus]

Boats, helicopters, art: Europe freezes $32 billion of oligarchs' assets

EU governments have frozen about 30 billion euros ($32.6 billion) of assets linked to oligarchs and other sanctioned people with ties to the Kremlin, the European Commission said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

I wonder what the number would be with the US added in.

 

[Rexedgar]

Boats, helicopters, art: Europe freezes $32 billion of oligarchs' assets

EU governments have frozen about 30 billion euros ($32.6 billion) of assets linked to oligarchs and other sanctioned people with ties to the Kremlin, the European Commission said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

I wonder what the number would be with the US added in.

32 billion should get someone’s attention!

 

[CaughtInThe]

how sad is it that some people can watch others be slaughtered until they start losing their own giant boats?

 

[snakestretcher]

how sad is it that some people can watch others be slaughtered until they start losing their own giant boats?

I doubt these 'oligarchs' are particularly worried. I suspect most of them still have the majority of their assets squirrelled away in offshore tax havens-if they had any sense; just like any savvy Western billionaire would.

How a network of enablers have helped Russia’s oligarchs hide their wealth abroad - ICIJ

Elites close to Vladimir Putin have funneled billions through tax havens to evade scrutiny and oversight. Lawyers, proxies and bankers across the world made it possible.

www.icij.org

Oligarchs will hide wealth in UK’s offshore tax havens, government warned

Exclusive: The ‘dirty money’ legislation being rushed through parliament won’t prevent use of British territories, say campaigners

www.independent.co.uk

 

[CaughtInThe]

I doubt these 'oligarchs' are particularly worried. I suspect most of them still have the majority of their assets squirrelled away in offshore tax havens-if they had any sense; just like any savvy Western billionaire would.

How a network of enablers have helped Russia’s oligarchs hide their wealth abroad - ICIJ

Elites close to Vladimir Putin have funneled billions through tax havens to evade scrutiny and oversight. Lawyers, proxies and bankers across the world made it possible.

www.icij.org

Oligarchs will hide wealth in UK’s offshore tax havens, government warned

Exclusive: The ‘dirty money’ legislation being rushed through parliament won’t prevent use of British territories, say campaigners

www.independent.co.uk

True

I'm sure that most don't even notice that normal people, kind of like people on this board, are being slaughtered in Ukraine.