67In those circumstances, Article 1(1) of Decision 2011/172 must be interpreted broadly. That provision must therefore be interpreted as being directed at five separate categories of person. The first category comprises those who, at the end of judicial proceedings, have been found guilty of the ‘misappropriation of Egyptian State funds’. The second category comprises the ‘associates’ of such persons in the strict sense, namely those who have been found to be their accomplices by a criminal court. The third category comprises those persons being prosecuted for the ‘misappropriation of Egyptian State funds’. The fourth category encompasses those persons being prosecuted for being their associates (that is their accomplices). The fifth category corresponds to all those persons the subject of judicial proceedings connected to criminal proceedings for ‘misappropriation of Egyptian State funds’ who may on that basis be described as persons associated with the individuals the subject of those criminal proceedings. That fifth category of persons groups together, in particular, those persons who, possibly without their knowledge, may have benefited from the proceeds of the ‘misappropriation of Egyptian State funds’ and on that basis are subject to protective measures, prescribed in a judicial context, intended to preserve the assets arising from such misappropriation.
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