CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 28 septembre 2020

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s25D5DE94 { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:7pt } Communicated on 28 September 2020 Published on 19 October 2020   THIRD SECTION Applications nos. 22818/20 and 23856/20 Aleksandr Nikolayevich VADEKHIN against Russia and Mariya Nikolayevna SHEVCHENKO against Russia lodged on 23 March 2020 and 7 April 2020 respectively SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The applications concern the confiscation of substantial amounts of undeclared cash from the applicants, a brother and sister of Ukrainian nationality, at the Russian-Ukrainian border, in the absence of any indication that they had intended to circumvent deliberately the customs regulations, acquired the cash by unlawful means or engaged in any illegal activities (see Gyrlyan v.   Russia , no.   35943/15, 9 October 2018; Boljević v.   Croatia , no.   43492/11, 31 January 2017; and Sadocha v.   Ukraine , no.   77508/11, 11 July 2019).   QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Has there been a violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention (see the case-law cited above)?