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European Confiscation Forum

Short introduction.

Programme - Friday 16 October

Programme

  • Time
  • Title
  • Speakers

  • Part 2: Criminalising unexplained wealth

    • PhD-candidate Jasna Klotz (?): Expanding from corruption law to money laundering?
    • Professor Jon Petter Rui (University of Bergen: Substantive legal issues
    • Professor Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach (Adam-Mickiewicz-University): Procedural guarantees: right to silence, privilege against self-incrimination, compatibility of reversed burden of proof/presumption with Art. 6(2) ECHR
    • Johan Boucht, Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach Frank Meyer: Summing up: What would an “acceptable” criminalisation look like, if at all?
    • Alternative to criminal justice: Dealing with unexplained wealth through tax law. Nick Dimitrievski (Karlstad university)?

  • Break

  • Roundtable: Final discussion on unexplained wealth (key words: experience, challenges and solutions)

    • Professor Katalin Ligeti (University of Luxembourg): Summary and chair the round table)
    • Deputy Director-General Anders Schiøtz-Worren (Norwegian Ministry of Justice): Efficiency of Norwegian system, shortcomings/needs?
    • Associate Professor Kilian Wegner (?): German ambivalence: criminal or civil?
    • Professor Anna Maria Maugeri (University of Catania): Italian experience of unexplained wealth

  • Conclusions of the conference and the way forward

    Speakers

    Johan Boucht, Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach Frank Meyer