MOSCOW, 23 Nov – PRIME. The Paris appeals court on Wednesday withdrew the arrest of the assets of three Russian FSUE MIA “Russia today”, “Space connection” and “Goszagransobstvennost”, reports RIA Novosti citing the Director General of the International centre for the legal protection of Andrey Kondakov.

“the seizure of assets of Russian Federal state unitary enterprise in France was illegal, because they are separate legal entities and are unable to meet their property for the obligations of the state,” he said, Recalling also that were imposed on the basis of the decisions of the Hague court in 2014 against Russia on claims of former shareholders of YUKOS for a total of $ 50 billion.

the arrest Also cleared with funds for the French accounts of the MIA “Russia today”.

Contacts explained that Russia was involved in a lawsuit as a third party. “Now the correctness of this position was confirmed by a French court, among other things, the removal of arrests will allow the French company Eutelsat to pay their debts before FGUP “Space communication” in the amount of about 400 million euros,” concluded the lawyer.