Russian central bank seeks seizure of Euroclear documents
The reported request concerns alleged work on EU rules and comes as the EU considers using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.
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Russia’s central bank has asked Belgian authorities to send a bailiff to Euroclear’s Brussels headquarters to seize documents, Dutch news agency ANP reported, citing Belgian business newspaper L’Echo.
The bank alleges that Euroclear and the EU worked on changes to European regulations during the summer. It wants a bailiff to collect, catalogue and preserve documents that could support its claim, ANP said.
Euroclear, a securities depository, holds more than €200 billion in frozen Russian assets, according to ANP. The assets were blocked after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the EU has long discussed using them to help Ukraine.
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