“As of today, €1.3 billion belonging to Russian oligarchs is blocked in France.

We cannot confiscate these funds until there is an appropriate court decision, ”RIA Novosti quoted Legendre as saying on the air of the LCI TV channel.

She noted that it is currently impossible to transfer these funds to Ukraine.

Earlier, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the Bank of Russia would continue to work on unblocking frozen Russian assets.

At the end of January, the head of investment financial intermediaries of the Central Bank of Russia, Olga Shishlyannikova, announced that the volume of assets of Russian investors blocked in foreign infrastructure was estimated at 5.7 trillion rubles as of November 30