Key legal question
Whether the criminal seizure of the bank accounts was admissible and sufficiently justified at this stage
Extracted holding
The seizure could not be definitively upheld on the original reasoning alone; the matter had to be reassessed because the compensatory-claim basis was not examined by the lower court.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Supreme Court held that, even if the seized assets were not clearly the direct proceeds of the alleged Russian offenses, a seizure to secure a compensatory claim under Art. 71 CP could still be conceivable. However, essential factual and legal questions for that basis had not been addressed by the lower court.