Oleg Deripaska

French authorities arrested three villas belonging to Russian businessmen who were subject to sanctions. We are talking about the mansions of Rusal chairman Oleg Deripaska, Russian Platinum chairman Musa Bazhaev and Sibur shareholder and alleged former son-in-law of Vladimir Putin, Kirill Shamalov. This is reported by the French broadcasters Nice-Matin and BFMTV.

Deripaska’s house, owned since 2005, is located near Saint-Tropez, Bazhaev’s estate is also located on the Cote d’Azur – a mansion in the style of the Palace of Versailles was built on the territory of the Saint-commune. Jean-Cap-Ferrat. The property, thought to belong to Shamalov, is located near Biarritz.

Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that a total of more than 40 properties in France linked to sanctioned Russian businessmen have already been frozen, including Roman Abramovich’s Chateau de la Croix villa on the Cote d’Azur. Former owner Chelsea bought it in 2009.

In France, 22.8 billion euros were blocked from the foreign assets of the Russian Central Bank, and many Russian businessmen’s yachts were arrested. Control the property of oligarchs in France, previously ordered President Emmanuel Macron.

Among the recent decisions of the French authorities is the arrest of two paintings that were part of the sensational exhibition of the Morozov brothers’ collection. Valentin Serov’s painting “Portrait of Timofey Morozov” has been seized because it belongs to MAGMA, the Moscow Avant-garde Art Museum, created by Russian entrepreneur Vyacheslav Kantor. And the work “Self-portrait in gray” by Pyotr Konchalovsky was detained in France, as it belonged to the Russian billionaire Pyotr Aven. Both entrepreneurs were previously included in sanctions lists.