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

in absentia
. In some cases, such judgment must be considered as the court’s decision or the court 
order on criminal case (when the special confiscation may be applied without conviction in cases, provided 
by Law). During application of different types of non-criminal extended confiscation, the court must take a 
decision, a judgment, or a court order, which is typical for the relevant type of the court proceedings. 
All the countries of the ACN have declared that decision on confiscation within the proceedings of any type 
may be appealed by persons, whose rights and interests have been affected in the result of such decision. The 
procedure for the confiscation measures implementation shall be mainly under the responsibility of the 

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institution of the juridical enforcement agents, some of powers for sale of the confiscated assets in some 
countries have been already transferred to the specially established Offices for Assets Management. 
However, most of the ACN countries could not provide, in their answers to the questionnaire, the references 
for the measures that guarantee that the bodies, which apply the confiscation measures, have sufficient human 
and technical resources, and the appropriate level of knowledge, skills, and expertise for effective application 
of the confiscation measures.
Georgia
has made a notification in this regard about its bodies specialising in combating the corruption, 
money laundering, and investigation of financial crimes, as well as about the offices of prosecutors in charge 
of such investigations, the assets search, and recovery. These bodies have adequate human, material, and 
financial resources for adequate performance of their functions. To ensure the relevant level of knowledge 
and expertise for investigators and prosecutors of these bodies, the regular training sessions and other 
activities are conducted to strengthen their capacity. Besides Georgia, multiple training sessions on 
application of the confiscation measures have been conducted also in