Lloyd's Law Reporter Financial Crime

Karl Laird

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KS and MS v Germany

European Court of Human Rights, Judge Ganna Yudkivska, President, Judges Angelika Nußberger, André Potocki, Faris Vehabović, Síofra O'Leary, Carlo Ranzoni, Mārtiņ Mits and Milan Blako, Deputy Section Registrar, 6 October 2016

European Convention of Human Rights, article 8 - Respect for private and family life, home and correspondence - Search warrant - Illegally obtained evidence

The German secret service bought a data carrier from a former employee of a Liechtenstein bank. The data carrier contained financial data relating to 800 of the bank's customers, which the former employee had illegally copied from the bank. The German secret service gave the data carrier to the German tax investigation authorities, who subsequently instigated proceedings against, inter alia, Mr KS and Mrs MS (the "applicants"), in relation to tax evasion crimes.

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Lloyd's Law Reporter Financial Crime

KS and MS v Germany

European Court of Human Rights, Judge Ganna Yudkivska, President, Judges Angelika Nußberger, André Potocki, Faris Vehabović, Síofra O'Leary, Carlo Ranzoni, Mārtiņ Mits and Milan Blako, Deputy Section Registrar, 6 October 2016

European Convention of Human Rights, article 8 - Respect for private and family life, home and correspondence - Search warrant - Illegally obtained evidence

European Court of Human Rights, Judge Ganna Yudkivska, President, Judges Angelika Nußberger, André Potocki, Faris Vehabović, Síofra O'Leary, Carlo Ranzoni, Mārtiņ Mits and Milan Blako, Deputy Section Registrar, 6 October 2016