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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11882

13 October 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice
EU ministers call for preventive confiscation of criminal assets
Luxembourg, 12/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

Meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday 12 October, European justice ministers called for including the preventive confiscation of criminal assets in the draft regulation to unify mutual recognition practices for decisions to freeze and confiscate criminal assets.

This idea was not included in the original text unveiled by the European Commission in 2016 (see EUROPE 11694) but several member states called for it.  Italy includes in its law the option of seizing criminal assets before sentencing....

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