ROMANCHENKO v. GEORGIA

Published on 26 May 2025 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 25356/23Ana ROMANCHENKOagainst Georgialodged on 13 June 2023communicated on 6 May 2025SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the freezing of the applicant’s immovable property in the context of ongoing fraud proceedings, with the freezing order having been in effect since 6 February 2021. On 22 January 2023, following a number of legislative amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Tbilisi City Court, acting at the request of the prosecutor’s office, issued a new freezing order in respect of the applicant’s property for the period of twelve months. The applicant appealed claiming that the freezing order was entirely unsubstantiated; that she had been a bona fide possessor of the impugned property long before the alleged criminal act took place; that the investigative authorities had two years to establish the rel …