INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the assets owned by Russian oligarchs, a legal source said on Monday.The probe is
expected to look into possible money laundering and corruption.The investigation, first reported by the Parisien newspaper, comes after
assets worth billions of euros since the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine in February, including luxury yachts, ski chalets and property.The
for investment and leisure."The ambitions of the sanctions regime against Russia and the first asset seizures are running into difficulties
in identifying the assets owned by sanctioned individuals," Transparency International France said in a statement last month."In France, as
elsewhere, the hunt for goods owned by oligarchs and others close to the Russian regime is at a standstill," it added as it filed its legal
countries have frozen assets worth 13.8 billion euros ($14.1 billion) linked to sanctioned Russian and Belarusian individuals, according to
approved in early June.The French probe will be led by specialised investigators at the Central Office for the Repression of Major Financial
