Fifty-two assets, worth over 486 million lei, seized by the Criminal Assets Agency Recovery (CARA) and belonging to V. Plahotniuc, remain frozen. This is after the Constitutional Court has declared inadmissible the requests of his lawyer, who asked the Supreme Court to deliver its judgement on alleged violations, admitted by the state bodies in relation to the actual beneficiary of the seized assets.

The author of the 12 notifications invoked that the contested norms allow the application of the sequestration on the assets of some persons who do not have any status in the criminal case in which the application of the sequestration is requested. In the notifications it was mentioned that these provisions violate the person's right of free access to justice, the right to know his rights and duties and the right to property. However, the court considered all the complaints, filed by V. Plahotniuc's lawyer, inadmissible.

We remind, that the CARA seized 52 assets, which allegedly belong to V. Plahotniuc, based on the delegations of the prosecutors, within the criminal cases with the generic name of bank fraud. Among them are 11 cars, 11 buildings, a non-residential area, 5 share capitals, 17 residential and non-residential buildings, but also 4 bank accounts. Of the total number of assets seized by the CARA, 41 were identified in the country, another 11 - in Switzerland (7), France (1) and in Romania (3).

The CARA has stated that the process of the criminal assets recovery will be completed once the court adopts the confiscation decision. The final step of the process of recovery or sale of confiscated objects is performed by the institution of the bailiff and the State Fiscal Service.