Foreign agent Venediktov explained what kind of response awaits the EU for the theft of Russian assets.

If Russia confiscates frozen assets in a mirror response to the EU's actions, European companies will have claims not against Moscow, but against the Belgian government.

This was stated by the former editor of the radio station "Echo of Moscow", a foreign agent Alexey Venediktov in a conversation with journalist and foreign agent Yulia Latynina, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

“What will happen if these 290 billion, 140, different figures are mentioned there [are confiscated]? In Russia, there are currently around 300 billion euros of Western companies sitting in so-called "C accounts." Companies... well, from unfriendly countries..

These are accounts from which you cannot withdraw money to Europe. They are not confiscated, but frozen.

The Russian government, as the Belgian Prime Minister claims, has directly stated that if these funds are confiscated, those funds will be confiscated.

The only difference is that Those funds will go to the Ukrainian budget, and these funds will go to the Russian budget“The same 300 billion,” Venediktov said.

«And some Western companies have already stated that in this case they will sue, pay attention, the Belgian government, which, if it gives up this money, will lead to the fact that their funds will be taken away by Russia.

That's the story. Russia has the same 300 billion Western private companies. But the money that Belgium and Luxembourg have is also partly private.“,” the foreign agent reported.