The Chamber to which the cases of Macagnino and Marzo v. Italy and Cavallotti and Others v. Italy had been allocated has relinquished jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber.

The cases concern confiscations of assets, known as “preventive confiscations” in Italian law, which are measures taken in respect of individuals who, on account of their behaviour and lifestyle and on the basis of factual evidence, may be regarded as habitually living, even in part, on the proceeds of crime (on grounds of “ordinary dangerousness”), and in respect of individuals suspected, inter alia, of membership of a mafia-type organisation (on grounds of “special dangerousness”).

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