MEPS STRIKE AGREEMENT OVER EU CRIME PROCEEDS CONFISCATION LAW
January 1st, 2018
NEW rules to speed up freezing and confiscating criminal assets across the European Union (EU) have been approved by a key European Parliament committee. The regulation as approved thus far introduces tighter deadlines for member states to execute asset freezing and confiscation requests from other EU member states, creating a standard certificate to speed up the procedure. The planned legislation also broadens the scope of assets that can be seized or confiscated across EU borders, covering cases where a suspect died, or where the perpetrator of an offence ...
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