On Wednesday 30 November, the General Court of the EU annulled the decision to freeze the funds of Mr Arkady Rotenberg for the period 2014-2015, due to clear errors made in the examination of the reasons for this decision (Case T-720/14).
This businessman and close associate of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was accused of having indirectly benefited from economic advantages arising from the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia.
The General Court, however, ruled that the same...