France Seizes Villa Allegedly Owned by Sanctioned Russian Oligarch

French authorities seized a villa worth over $24 million and allegedly owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, French newspaper Le Monde reported March 1. The mansion, seized in October, is suspected of belonging to Russian steel magnate Viktor Rashnikov, the report said. While French authorities had already frozen three properties linked to the oligarch since he was sanctioned in March 2022, this property went unnoticed because it was "not declared to the tax authorities as being his property," the report said.