Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I too want to thank the witnesses, Ms. Braw and Mr. Astapenka, for being with us today. I hope they can hear the English interpretation properly. My questions will be in French, of course.
Ms. Braw, you've explained in the past that, in order to seize assets, rather than freeze them, a link to crime must have been established. You suggested that seizing Russian assets without evidence of criminality would have the effect, as clarified earlier, of depriving western companies and individuals abroad of the legal protection that western governments have painstakingly pushed other governments to adopt in recent years.
The question is how to structure asset seizure and confiscation authorities in a way that can address these concerns.