By Leo Marchandon
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 17:30:00
By Leo Marchandon, Inti Landauro and Gleb Bryanski
PARIS/MOSCOW, Dec 12 – The administrator of Google’s (GOOG) defunct Russian business has obtained a temporary freeze on some 110 million euros ($129 million) of the Alphabet-owned company’s assets in France, official orders seen by Reuters show.
The move represents a rare attempt by Russian authorities to use legal channels to target assets of western companies overseas, amid rising tensions over the potential use of seized Russian assets in Europe.
Russia’s central bank is separately suing Brussels-based financial institution Euroclear, which holds many of the frozen Russian assets, in a Moscow court.
The measure against Google France involves shares belonging to Google International and was sought by Google Russia, acting through its court-appointed judicial administrator.
The French bailiff declined to comment. Google, Google Russia’s administrator and the French government did not respond to…
