MOSCOW (Sputnik) — RBC News Agency earlier reported that France had seized $700 million in stakes in the two companies on the initiative of the former shareholders of the now defunct Yukos oil company.
"The information is being checked. Here we of course have to have detailed information that needs to be checked and rechecked and understand all of situations and details before anything can be said," Peskov told journalists, adding that "it would be incorrect to say anything without the details."