NOZADZE v. GEORGIA

Published on 26 May 2025 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 28077/23Mikheil NOZADZEagainst Georgialodged on 4 July 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 and abuse of power proceedings, with the freezing order having been in effect since 27 April 2017. On 25 February 2022 the Constitutional Court of Georgia granted the applicant’s constitutional complaint, finding certain parts of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which provided for the assets freezing procedure, unconstitutional. On 26 January 2023, following legislative amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (in light of the aforementioned judgment of the Constitutional Court), the Akhaltsikhe District Court, acting at the request of the prosecutor’s office, issued a new freezing order in respect of the applicant’ …