{"id":2047,"date":"2024-11-23T03:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T03:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/germany-to-seize-more-than-790-mln-from-russian-financial-group\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T03:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T03:40:28","slug":"germany-to-seize-more-than-790-mln-from-russian-financial-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/germany-to-seize-more-than-790-mln-from-russian-financial-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to seize more than $790 mln from Russian financial group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Prosecutors in Germany said on Wednesday they would move to confiscate more than 720 million euros ($790 million) from the Frankfurt bank account of a Russian financial institution, marking the country&#8217;s first such attempt.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities have previously moved to freeze Russian assets in response to Moscow&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but have stopped short of attempts to confiscate money.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the institution was the National Settlement Depository (NSD), the domestic payments agent owned by Moscow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/germany-seize-more-than-790-mln-russian-financial-group-2023-12-20\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Prosecutors in Germany said on Wednesday they would move to confiscate more than 720 million euros ($790 million) from the Frankfurt bank account of a Russian financial institution, marking the country&#8217;s first such attempt. German authorities have previously moved to freeze Russian assets in response to Moscow&#8217;s full-scale invasion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}