Good practices in asset recovery legislation in selected OSCE participating States
As part of the extra-budgetary project “Strengthening Asset Recovery Efforts in the OSCE Region” implemented by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, the International Centre for Asset Recovery
(ICAR) at the Basel Institute on Governance conducted a comparative study on the asset recovery legislation in a select group of participating States of the OSCE.
The study sought to identify the legislative mechanisms in each country that empower the state to confiscate suspected or proven proceeds of crime. The overall objective was to ascertain:
- Established good practices with regard to the design of these legislative mechanisms; and
- Any unique approaches that particular countries have taken in this context that could be replicated and tested in other jurisdictions.
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