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French court rules to seize Berezovsky real estate in Antibes

This ruling could be seen as an example of close cooperation between Russian and French prosecution agencies on the return to Russia of illegally purchased assets
Russian Prosecutor General’s Office ITAR-TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofyev
Russian Prosecutor General’s Office
© ITAR-TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofyev

MOSCOW, June 26. /ITAR-TASS/. A French court has ruled to seize the real estate once owned by late Russian fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

A spokesperson for the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office told ITAR-TASS on Thursday that the Marseille court had ruled to arrest Berezovsky’s house in the city of Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France.