> Are they in essence capturing some reserves? No, sized here means "put under control of a trustee until the situation is resolved" it doesn't mean "take ove

> Are they in essence capturing some reserves? No, sized here means "put under control of a trustee until the situation is resolved" it doesn't mean "take over ownership". The reason that happens is because the persons(s) currently in control of Gazprom Germania did try to use that control to act against German law in a way which threatens national security. This is also more about Gas infrastructure then Gas as far as I can tell. My guess is that some Russian oligarch tried to move ownership to one (or potentially many) chains of "dummy" companies which obfuscate the actual owner and go through many other non-Russian nationalities. This e.g. would make many legal actions against Gazprom Germania harder as the new (dumy) "owner(s)" would not be from Russia or any other sanctioned state.