One billion euro in assets abroad seized at Russia order - Prosecutor

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has enforced the seizure of almost 1 billion euro in illegally exported assets and real estate abroad, said Prosecutor General Yury Chaika.

"In 2014 alone courts in France and Italy ordered the seizure of real estate worth over 300 million euro. Bank accounts worth over half a billion euros, belonging to people charged in Russia, were frozen in Switzerland," Chaika told senior prosecutors in Moscow on Tuesday.