That would not be unusual for Russia, and they'd first threat to throw out your immediate family. In the soviet era, there was a period of political persecutio

That would not be unusual for Russia, and they'd first threat to throw out your immediate family. In the soviet era, there was a period of political persecution focused on people suspect of having gold or hard currencies. People would be held indefinitely, and subject to harsh torture, until they let go of their assets. Good if you have some, worse if you actually don't. See Aleksander Solzhenitzyn, somewhere near the end of the first volume. And of course, the people torturing were part of the same organization that brought up Vladimir Vladimirovich Putler.