77It should be emphasised in that regard that it was not for the Council or the General Court to verify whether the investigations to which the appellants were subject were well founded, but only to verify whether that was the case as regards the decision to freeze funds in the light of the request for assistance. So far as concerns the findings of fact made by the General Court with regard to the existence of judicial proceedings concerning the four appellants, it must be borne in mind that the Court of Justice has consistently held that the General Court has exclusive jurisdiction, first, to find the facts except where the substantive inaccuracy of its findings is apparent from the documents submitted to it and, secondly, to assess those facts. Save where the evidence adduced before the General Court has been distorted, the appraisal of the facts therefore does not constitute a point of law which is subject as such to review by the Court of Justice (see, in particular, judgments in Versalis v Commission, C‑511/11 P, EU:C:2013:386, paragraph 66, and Telefónica and Telefónica de España v Commission, C‑295/12 P, EU:C:2014:2062, paragraph 84).
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