Naftogaz has started to go after Gazprom assets in Europe

Naftogaz has started to go after Gazprom assets in Europe in an effort to get partial payment of the Russia’s state company’s $2.6 billion debt from a Swedish arbitration decision earlier this year. “Today, the encumbrance of shares and other assets of Gazprom in European countries, in particular, Switzerland, the U.K. and the Netherlands was started,” President Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page. “My clear order is that we must not stop on these three countries and do our best to ensure the arrival of awarded funds to Ukraine. We discussed this at a meeting with Naftogaz Ukrainy CEO Andriy Kobolev.”