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The General Court found as follows in paragraphs 123 to 133 and 137 of the judgment under appeal: ‘123 By letter of 7 June 2011, the Council explained to the applicants’ lawyers that it had received a “letter dated 13 February 2011 from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request by the Egyptian Prosecutor General to freeze the assets of certain former Ministers and officials”, which included the first applicant. A copy of a document dated 13 February 2011 on the headed notepaper of the Office of the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs was enclosed with that letter from the Council. In that unsigned document, reference was made to a request from the Egyptian Prosecutor General to freeze the assets of “former [Egyptian] Ministers, officials and nationals”. The first applicant was one of the persons the subject of that request, but not the second, third and fourth applicants. … 125 By letter of 29 July 2011, the Council replied to the letters from the applicants’ lawyers dated 13 May, 9 June and 15 July 2011. In that reply, no reference is made to possible court proceedings against the second, third and fourth applicants. Only the following is stated: “[They] appear on the list of persons subject to the above-mentioned request for judicial assistance by the Egyptian authorities (they appear under Nos. 2, 3 and 4 on the enclosed list). The request states that orders have been issued by the Egyptian Prosecutor General for the seizure of the assets of all the persons on the list, and that this order was endorsed by the criminal court.” 126 The Council’s letter of 29 July 2011 included in annex a note dated 24 February 2011 (Ref NV93/11/ms), by which the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Brussels (Belgium) requested the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to transmit to the “competent [judicial] authorities” a request for judicial assistance from the Office of the Egyptian Prosecutor General. 127 Three documents were included in annex to that note. 128 The first document was the undated and unsigned text of the request for judicial assistance. That request, drafted in English, sought to “freeze, confiscate and return assets of some former ministers and officials”. It referred to “the investigation carried out by the Egyptian Prosecution General in the [Cases Nos] 162 and 234 for the year 2010 ...; 34, 36, 38, 39, 55 and 70 for the year 2011 ... and [in Case No] 137/2011 ... regarding crimes of corruption, usurping of public assets, and money laundering crimes committed by former ministers and officials” and listed fifteen individuals, including the four applicants. The request went on to state, first, that the Egyptian Prosecutor General had decided to seize the assets of the persons thus listed and, secondly, that that seizure had been “endorsed by the criminal court”. 129 The second document annexed to the note of 24 February 2011 was a “list of former officials, [their] wives and children” in which the second, third and fourth applicants appeared second, third and fourth, respectively. 130 The third document annexed to the note of 24 February 2011 was presented as a summary of the allegations against the first applicant in “[Case No] 38 for the year 2011”, a case referred to in the request for judicial assistance referred to in paragraph 128 above. That document was undated, and was not on headed notepaper or signed. However, as with the note of 24 February 2011 and all the other documents annexed thereto, it bore the stamp of the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Brussels. 131 In short, none of the above-mentioned documents suggests that the second, third and fourth applicants have been prosecuted in Egypt for the misappropriation of State funds. 132 On the other hand, the request for judicial assistance referred to in paragraph 128 above shows, unequivocally, that, on 24 February 2011, less than one month before Decision 2011/172 and Regulation No 270/2011 were adopted, all the applicants were the subject of an order of the Egyptian Prosecutor General seeking to seize their assets, which had been endorsed by a criminal court and was linked to investigations concerning misappropriation of State funds. 133 The applicants have not moreover produced any evidence to cast doubt on the accuracy of the information entered on that request for judicial assistance. On the contrary, a decision of the Egyptian courts, a translation of which was lodged at the Court Registry on 5 March 2013, confirms that the second applicant still had her assets frozen on 30 January 2013. In addition, the applicants did not dispute, at the hearing, that the above-mentioned order for seizure existed. … 137 … it is clear from the document referred to in paragraph 130 above that, in “[Case No] 38 for the year 2011”, the first applicant was “accused” first of “usurping the assets” of a “public sector company with State-owned shares” and, secondly, of “committing crimes of profiteering and [intentionally] harming public assets, as well as usurping and … facilitating the usurpation of [such] assets”.’