Question juridique clé
Whether the account held by Banque Centrale Z. could be treated as property of the alleged debtor through piercing of the corporate veil for arrest purposes.
Solution extraite
The creditor failed to make the required showing of a sufficient abuse or piercing ground; the account could not be treated as belonging to the debtor.
Motifs extraits
Legal independence of legal persons remains the rule. Piercing requires both economic identity/dependence and an abusive invocation of separate personality leading to circumvention or clear prejudice. The creditor did not show that the debtor could generally and at any time dispose of the bank's assets, nor a systematic misuse of interposed entities.