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The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:
Ioannis Ktistakis , President , Yonko Grozev, Andreas Zünd , judges , and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,
the application (no. 78684/17 ) against the Republic of Bulgaria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 3 November 2017 by a Bulgarian national, Mr Veselin Genov Nakovski, born in 1954 and living in the village of Vranilovtsi ("the applicant"), who was represented by Mr M. Ekimdzhiev and Ms K. Boncheva, lawyers practising in Plovdiv;
the decision to give notice to the Bulgarian Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Ms R. Nikolova from the Ministry of Justice, of the complaints concerning the forfeiture of the applicant's assets in proceedings under the 2005 Forfeiture of Proceeds of Crime Act and the court fees payable by him in those proceedings, and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible;
. The applicant complained in addition, relying on Articles 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, of having been ordered to pay BGN 125,770 (EUR 64,300) in court fees in the judicial proceedings whereby the forfeiture had been ordered.
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