MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has no plans to seize any European assets, including companies and banks, but is ready to review this position if the European Union confiscates frozen Russian sovereign assets, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.
“We are not confiscating anything yet. The Europeans haven’t called for confiscation, so we won’t confiscate anything until they do. If they do end up confiscating, then we will consider it,” said Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev.
Moiseev said that a recent presidential decree on the accelerated privatisation of state-held assets was not linked to any plans to seize European assets.
He stressed that private European companies and banks, which are still operating in Russia, had not been seized by the state.
(Reporting by Elena Fabrichnaya; writing by Gleb BryanskiEditing by Andrew Osborn)
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