Confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of corruption crimes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Recommendation 13
 
13.1.
To take steps for 
application in practice
of the legal instruments available at their disposal for the 
purpose of confiscation of corruption and money laundering proceeds, thus developing the stable 
judicial case law and disseminating the best practices on confiscation in other countries of the region 
and beyond. 

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Document Outline

• OECD-Confiscation-of-Proceeds-of-Corruption-Eastern-Europe-Central-Asia
• OECD-ACN-Thematic Study on Confiscation_ENG_FINAL editNov2018
  • I. Foreword
  • II. Acronyms
  • III. About the thematic study
  • IV. Concept and purposes of confiscation
  • V. International standards
    • A. UN Convention against Corruption
    • B. OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
    • C. CE Criminal Law Convention on Corruption
    • D. Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (Warsaw Convention)
    • E. EU documents
    • F. FATF
    • G. CE Parliamentary Assembly
    • H. European Court of Human Rights
  • VI. Objects of confiscation measures
    • A. Instrumentalities
    • B. Proceeds (direct and indirect) derived from crime
    • C. Mixed proceeds
    • D. Property of equivalent value
    • E. Beneficial ownership
    • F. Third-party property
    • G. Property of legal persons
    • H. Third-party rights
      • In accordance with paragraph 9 of Article 31 (Freezing, seizure and confiscation) of the UN Convention against corruption dated 2003, the provisions of this article shall not be so construed as to prejudice the rights of bona fide third parties.
  • VII. Corruption offences that trigger confiscation
  • VIII. Typology of confiscation measures
    • A. Criminal confiscation as a sanction
    • B. Criminal confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime (special confiscation)
      • Criminal special non-conviction-based confiscation
      • Confiscation arising out of a trial in absentia
      • Confiscation arising out of conclusion of an agreement in the criminal proceedings
      • Confiscation arising out of satisfaction of a civil claim in a criminal case
    • C. Extended criminal confiscation
    • D. Civil forfeiture
      • Civil forfeiture based on the conviction
      • Non-conviction based civil forfeiture
    • E. Administrative forfeiture
  • IX. Evidentiary thresholds and burden of proof, defences
  • X. The practice of confiscation measures enforcement in the region
  • XI. Recommendations
• OECD-Confiscation-of-Proceeds-of-Corruption-Eastern-Europe-Central-Asia