EU law does not prevent Member States from planning for civil procedures for the confiscation of property, which are not conditional on a criminal offence being established or the perpetrators being convicted of such an offence, according to a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday 19 March (Case C-234/18).
In the context of a reference for a preliminary ruling submitted by the Sofia City Court, the Court was asked to determine whether a procedure for the...