Key legal question
Whether the land registry freezes on the company's properties were proportionate and compatible with the storer principle in fiscal-criminal proceedings.
Extracted holding
The freezes were proportionate at this stage and could be maintained as a preventive measure securing the proceedings and the seizure of shareholder loan claims.
Extracted reasoning
Given the shareholder's control over the company and the risk that the properties could be sold and the proceeds used to satisfy the separately seized shareholder loan claims, the measures were justified. The court accepted a limited procedural 'piercing' to the economically controlled company and held that the storer principle did not prevent measures primarily affecting the accused in economic terms.