In a judgment returned on Thursday 26 April (T-190/16), the General Court of the EU upheld the decision of the Council of the EU of March 2016 to renew, over the period 2016-2017, the freezing of the assets of Mr Mykola Yanovych Azarov, the former Ukrainian prime minister.
In March 2014, the Council decided to freeze the assets of 18 Ukrainian officials, including Mr Yanukovych and Azarov, identified as having misappropriated public funds and then having illegally transferred them out of...