Judgment_paragraph 208 · Ahmed Abdelaziz Ezz and Others v Council of the European Union (T-256/11)

208In the absence of a judicial decision concerning the merits of the court proceedings in Egypt, the Council could not, when Decision 2011/172 and Regulation No 270/2011 were adopted, know the nature, or itself state the quantum, of any possible misappropriation of Egyptian State funds by the first applicant. It was not therefore in a position to distinguish between, first, the assets likely to have become part of the applicants’ estates following such misappropriation and, secondly, the remainder of the goods comprising their estates. In those circumstances, nothing enabled the Council to assume that the seizure of the applicants’ assets by the Egyptian authorities (see paragraph 132 above) was sufficient to cover any future conviction of the first applicant.

Ahmed Abdelaziz Ezz and Others v Council of the European Union (T-256/11)

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