Within two weeks, the European Union may develop and present a | Perspective

Within two weeks, the European Union may develop and present a legal provision that would make it possible to consider sanctions circumvention a crime and confiscate assets frozen due to sanctions, including those of Russians.

This is reported by Politico.

Not all EU countries now make sanctions evasion a criminal offense. As Politico's interlocutors noted, the initiative is "aimed at harmonizing the legal confusion.

But the main trick here is not the Russians. Such a law allows threatening confiscation of property in EU countries to citizens of third countries whose companies help Russia circumvent Western sanctions.