CASE COMMENTS: PROCEDURES – SEARCH AND SEIZURE OPERATIONS – ORDERS AUTHORISING INSPECTIONS – ANONYMOUS STATEMENTS – APPEAL ON LAW AND FACT – ARTICLE L. 450-4 OF THE FRENCH COMMERCIAL CODE

Search and seizure operations: The Court of Cassation confirms its case law on the use of anonymous statements as presumptions justifying search and seizure operations and reaffirms lower judges’ discretion when assessing these presumptions (Banking sector)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Criminal Case, 16 November 2011, Banques populaires participations, No. 10-85270 Criminal case, 16 November 2011, BPCE, No. 10-85273 Criminal records, 19 October 2011, Crédit Mutuel de Guilers and others, No. 10-85269. Criminal Code, November 3, 2011, Banque populaire de l'Ouest, No. 10-85276. Criminal Case, November 3, 2011, Banque populaire du Massif central, No. 10-85275 Criminal Procedure Division, 3 November 2011, Caisse régionale du crédit agricole mutuel de Centre France and others, No. 10-85274. In a series of rulings relating to orders authorising search and seizure operations in the banking sector in Auvergne and Brittany, the Criminal

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  • University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Ashurst (Paris)

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Christophe Lemaire, Simon Naudin, Search and seizure operations: The Court of Cassation confirms its case law on the use of anonymous statements as presumptions justifying search and seizure operations and reaffirms lower judges’ discretion when assessing these presumptions (Banking sector), 16 February 2012, Concurrences N° 1-2012, Art. N° 42322, pp. 195-197

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