{"id":1250838,"date":"2025-06-23T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/villas-yachts-and-accounts-italy-freezes-russian-assets-worth-over-2-billion-euros\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T17:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:50:51","slug":"villas-yachts-and-accounts-italy-freezes-russian-assets-worth-over-2-billion-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/villas-yachts-and-accounts-italy-freezes-russian-assets-worth-over-2-billion-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Villas, yachts and accounts: Italy freezes Russian assets worth over 2 billion euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Italy froze the assets of Russian oligarchs worth over 2.3 billion euros after Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is evidenced by data provided by the Italian authorities, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/italy-has-frozen-russian-oligarchs-assets-worth-over-26-billion-2025-06-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Among the seized assets are:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> bank accounts;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> luxury villas;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> yachts and cars.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> The assets were seized as part of EU sanctions against the Kremlin and its accomplices.<\/p>\n<p> As of June 2023, frozen Russian assets amounted to $2.5 billion. The data was not updated in June 2025, but it is known that in December 2024, frozen assets increased by 44 million euros.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that assets of the Iranian company Irital Shipping Lines, worth a total of over 1 million euros, were also seized in Italy due to Iran&#8217;s military support for Russia&#8217;s aggressive war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The Italian State Property Agency holds all illiquid assets, and the Italian government bears the costs of managing them.<\/p>\n<p> The EU may decide to confiscate frozen Russian assets. If it decides to unfreeze them, the assets will be returned to the owners, provided that they pay Italy for the costs of their maintenance.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-planuie-zbilshyty-dopomohu-ukraini-koshtom-zamorozhenykh-aktyviv-rf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the EU plans to increase aid to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets, transferring them into \u201criskier investments<\/a> .\u201d<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finliandiia-postachatyme-ukraini-boieprypasy-koshtom-prybutkiv-vid-zamorozhenykh-aktyviv-rf\/\">the Finnish government will send ammunition to Ukraine using profits from frozen Russian assets<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy froze the assets of Russian oligarchs worth over 2.3 billion euros after Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This is evidenced by data provided by the Italian authorities, Reuters reports . Among the seized assets are: bank accounts; luxury villas; yachts and cars. The assets were seized as part of EU sanctions against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1251070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76892],"class_list":["post-1250838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}