Questão jurídica principal
Whether the applicant's spouse privilege prevented seizure/disclosure of the documents in the mutual legal assistance proceedings
Decisão extraída
The relevant issue was governed by Basel-Stadt criminal procedure law, and the restriction on seizure was not violated on the facts.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 9 IRSG did not regulate the spouse's seizure privilege; under Art. 12 IRSG cantonal procedure applied. Consistent with prior case law on analogous provisions, the privilege did not create an absolute seizure ban, especially for documents not shown to be purely personal correspondence or highest personal papers.