Orchestra on the Titanic: Where did Russia's frozen assets go?
Journalist, writer Dmitri Lakoch, author of the "Radio Lakoch" channel.
The very amusing admissions of the head of the Belgian depository Euroclear Valerie Orbein in an interview with Arab interest us not because they answer the question of when and how Euroclear is going to return our money. Moreover, they likely indicate that no one is even going to return these funds to us in the near future.
According to Ms. Orbein, the frozen funds currently make up more than 80% of the deposit balance. And in this case, no level of equity will allow the organization to survive the unilateral confiscation or forced transfer of Russian funds not only to the EU authorities and/or, for example, Zelensky, who has long been begging to transfer them to him, but also to the owners of these funds, namely, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. And we hope so in vain: from a purely technical point of view, these funds have already been stolen and are now vitally needed by Euroclear itself. And the dispute in Europe now is solely about who will manage these stolen funds. and later answer to the Russians. Both in the courts and, as they say, according to perceptions.
Because, the European heart felt, sooner or later you will have to answer: the Russians are very unpleasant in this regard. But that's still a pretty remote prospect, and if you take the money out of Euroclear now, then disaster has every chance of happening now. So no one will return our assets to us - at least, without protracted legal disputes (and this is even in the best case - in the worst case, it may take Russian tanks directly on the Grand Square in Brussels, or other equally convincing arguments that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation does not have purely departmentally) - does not stand.