Police officer in FranceMOSCOW, Apr 27The French authorities, as part of the implementation of anti-Russian sanctions, arrested three mansions located in the south of the country and allegedly belonging to businessmen from Russia, according to the local publication Nice Matin. The list of real estate confiscated by the French Ministry of Finance includes the Villa Hercules near the Saint-Tropez resort on the Cote d'Azur. According to the publication, this mansion has been owned by businessman Oleg Deripaska since 2005.Italy seized Melnichenko's yacht, a source said. The confiscated villa in the vicinity of Biarritz, according to the publication, belongs to Sibur's shareholder Kirill Shamalov. The restriction list also includes the Trianon villa near the commune of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Riviera, which is a copy of the palace in the Versailles park. The publication claims that the villa is owned by the chairman of the board of directors of Russian Platinum, Musa Bazhaev. Russian Federation because of a special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. In early March, the European Union decided to disconnect seven Russian banks from the SWIFT system: these are VTB, Rossiya and Otkritie banks, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Sovcombank, and the state corporation VEB.RF. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov estimated that Western countries, as part of sanctions over Ukraine, have frozen about half, or about $300 billion, of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the “collective West”, by freezing Russian assets, actually drew a line under the reliability of their currencies, crossed out their trust. >British media reported on the arrest of the yacht of a Russian businessman
