When he arrived at the head of Tracfin last January, Guillaume Valette-Valla had no idea that the hunt for Russian oligarchs would become a daily obsession.
“My introduction was without a parachute with the war in Ukraine
, confides the new boss of the discreet but influential intelligence service of the Ministry of the Economy.
Tracfin was very quickly appointed to coordinate the Bercy services task force on the freezing of the assets of the oligarchs
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From the weekend following the invasion of Russia in Ukraine on February 24, the teams were on deck.
It was more exactly a Sunday.
“We have launched an appeal for vigilance to all financial professions, and in particular to banks.
This is how we avoided the exit of the territory towards the Russian central bank of more than 20 billion euros of assets held in a French commercial bank.
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