Canada faces $100-million forfeiture ‘test case’ as Russian airline sues over grounded plane: The Hill Times
As Neil Moss reports in an article published in The Hill Times, Canada took up proposals led by the World Refugee & Migration Council to repurpose assets seized from sanctioned individuals and entities as part of the 2022 federal budget. The federal government is now being sued by Volga-Dnepr, the firm that owns the Antonov An-123 aircraft sitting at Pearson Airport since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.