Facts
The Russian Federation requested judicial assistance from Switzerland in the context of criminal proceedings opened against Russian nationals for fraud and money laundering. The Office of the Attorney General of the Confederation ordered the seizure of documentation relating to accounts and a safe deposit box of which one of the suspects, Nikolai Alexeievitch Glouchkov, is the holder, and ordered the transmission of these documents to the requesting State. Glouchkov filed an administrative appeal against these decisions, which the Federal Tribunal dismissed.Considerations
The Federal Tribunal considered that, although Art. 2 IMAC allows refusing assistance if the foreign proceedings do not comply with the procedural principles set out in the ECHR or the UN Pact II, or if the person risks being prosecuted or punished on account of their political opinions, membership of a social group, race, religion or nationality, the appellant has not demonstrated in a serious and credible manner that these conditions were met in the present case.
The Federal Tribunal indeed considered that respect for the procedural guarantees offered by the ECHR and the UN Pact II belongs to international…