Question juridique clé
Which authority is competent to decide on lifting seals over documents seized in this mixed mutual-assistance and federal criminal matter?
Solution extraite
The request for lifting the seals had to be transferred ex officio to the Court of Complaints of the Federal Criminal Court, which is the competent authority.
Motifs extraits
Because the seizure related both to a mutual assistance request and to a pending federal criminal investigation, one judicial authority should decide the sealing issue. The conditions for lifting seals in mutual assistance follow federal criminal procedure, and competence lies with the ordinary federal authority now designated by statute, not with the Supreme Court.