Information was also provided on the confiscation of assets and proceeds of crime and the sharing of such proceeds.

Also often lacking are the expertise and capacity required to combat money laundering successfully, including by the freezing, seizure and confiscation of criminal assets.

Also often missing are the expertise and capacity required to successfully combat money laundering, including by the freezing, seizure and confiscation of criminal assets.

A new law on money laundering was adopted in late 2004, and new laws on the freezing and confiscation of assets are under consideration.

The importance of asset confiscation as a disincentive to criminal activity was also highlighted seized assets could be channelled back into efforts to counter crime.

(f) The right to property should also be protected when establishing and implementing measures against terrorist property, particularly involving the freezing and confiscation of assets.

Several States referred to constraints faced during investigative, prosecution and trial phases, in particular the lack of financial resources and trained personnel to secure confiscation of assets.

Typologies and trends in terrorist financing methods and techniques Techniques for tracing criminal assets and funds with a view to their seizure and confiscation.

Moreover, the Panel notes that Iraq included with its comments a copy of a presidential confiscation order dated in April 1992 and another confiscation order from the Iraqi Council of Ministers dated in September 1992, directing the military authorities to confiscate the claimant's assets in Iraq.

confiscation.

We support the measures taken to eradicate all forms of financing of terrorism, including the freezing of assets and goods used in terrorist activities, the monitoring of flows of such assets, and their seizure and confiscation in accordance with legal rules created for that purpose

Confiscation and seizure

International cooperation for purposes of confiscation

Freezing, seizure and confiscation

However, according to official information, the Turkish government collected 324 million liras (at a time in which 1 US dollar was equivalent to 1.20 Turkish lira) through the confiscation of non Muslim assets.

Obligatory confiscation of plants and substances seized

The issue of confiscation raised many questions.

States that had sent or received requests for mutual legal assistance on money laundering, freezing, seizure or confiscation of criminal assets, by region (those responding in both the second and the third reporting period)

(e) Increase in the number of police officers, prosecutors and judges trained in the prosecution and adjudication of cases related to money laundering and the financing of terrorism and corruption and in the seizure and confiscation of assets

(iv) International cooperation for purposes of confiscation (article 13)

International cooperation for purposes of confiscation (art. 13, para.

The examining magistrate may order interim measures of protection, in accordance with the prevailing law, at State expense, in particular the seizure or confiscation of assets related to the infraction which is under investigation and any evidence allowing them to be identified, as well as freezing of sums of money and financial operations having to do with those assets.

Freezing, seizure and confiscation of proceeds of drug trafficking offences

Freezing, seizure and confiscation of proceeds of other serious crimes

In the area of international cooperation, States were asked to report whether they had sent to or received from other States any requests for mutual legal assistance concerning cases of money laundering or the freezing, seizure or confiscation of criminal assets.

Confiscation of the passports of some representatives of non governmental organizations

Mechanisms for recovery of property through international cooperation in confiscation

The European Arrest Warrant is already producing concrete results, and we are moving towards the free movement of judicial decisions in the EU, through which judicial decisions such as arrest and surrender of suspects, confiscation, and freezing of assets will be mutually recognized.

The observer for the European Commission made a presentation on the Council's draft framework decision on the execution in the European Union of confiscation orders, highlighting in particular articles 14 and 17 of the draft decision, on sharing of assets and costs, respectively.

According to Article 232 of the RA Criminal Procedural Code the arrest (freezing) of financial funds (or any other property) is carried out in order to ensure the civil suit on the criminal case, possible confiscation of the assets and the judicial expenses.

States reporting measures for freezing, seizure and confiscation of illicit proceeds

Confiscation damages the rule of law on which modern industrial prosperity rests.

Another underlined the importance of the work of the Global Programme against Money Laundering in supporting activities to combat money laundering, in particular through its mentoring programme. Information was also provided on the confiscation of assets and proceeds of crime and the sharing of such proceeds.

The draft Penal Code stipulates in article 567 bis, paragraph 2, that the procedure for freezing, seizure or confiscation of assets belonging to or intended for a terrorist group or derived from a terrorist act shall be that provided under the Act on capital.

In China, this proportion of fixed, illiquid assets exceeds 90 . Resource assets account for roughly 50 of total government assets, with operating assets amounting to 39 and administrative (or non operating) assets comprising another 6 .

Resource assets account for roughly 50 of total government assets, with operating assets amounting to 39 and administrative (or non operating) assets comprising another 6 .

(a) Assets of the debtor, including the debtor's interest in encumbered assets and in third party owned assets

A description of the nature of the assets frozen (i.e. bank deposits, securities, business assets, precious commodities, works of art, real estate property and other assets) The value of assets frozen

(t) Control of the proceeds of crime, including freezing, confiscation, civil forfeiture or asset sharing

Identification(s) of the person of entities whose assets have been frozen A description of the nature of the assets frozen (i.e., bank deposits securities, business assets, precious commodities, work of art, real estate property and other assets) The value of assets frozen.

To date, no criminal confiscation proceedings have been instituted on the grounds of financing terrorism.

freezing of assets

Most representatives indicated that their national systems required final confiscation, obtained on the basis of a judgement, as a precondition for the sharing of proceeds of crime or property and outlined the different means by which confiscation could be obtained.

In one of the cases, a request for confiscation of property and vehicles was included as well.

The continued confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel has substantially undermined the agricultural sector's absorptive capacity.