Google’s French Assets Targeted by Its Defunct Russian Unit

The Russian liquidator of Alphabet Inc.’s Google arm filed an order to seize some of the firm’s assets in France, in the latest example of the tension between Russian courts and international firms.

Google Russia is targeting Google in France in a bid to recoup €110 million ($128 million), a dividend paid by the Russian arm prior to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and its ultimate bankruptcy, a lawyer representing Google Russia’s liquidators said in a statement.

The request for the preventive seizure of assets from Google was brought by a bailiff to the French headquarters of the ...