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Part C Enforcement, 18 Asset Recovery

From: An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law

Neil Boister

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Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
01 September 2012
ISBN:
9780199605385

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 31 March 2023

Subject(s):
Drug trafficking — Extradition and mutual assistance
Most states have long possessed the power both to confiscate the instruments that enable the perpetration of a crime and to return stolen property. The proceeds of the sale of contraband, and the funds paid in bribes in cases of corruption, present more difficult problems, because of questions over who owns the property involved. One of the purposes of criminalizing money laundering is to permit law enforcement agencies to confiscate these proceeds or instruments of crime. Confiscation is considered ‘a form of condign punishment’ for those who engage in the...
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