European Confiscation Forum

Programme

• Time
• Title

• Part 2: Criminalising unexplained wealth

  • PhD-candidate Jana Klotz (Universität Trier): Rethinking Illicit Enrichment: Structural Flaws and Future Perspectives
  • Professor Jon Petter Rui (University of Bergen): Criminalization and confiscation of inexplicable wealth: possibilities and limits
  • 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
  • Harald Johannesen (Legal Director, The Norwegian Tax Authority): Alternative to criminal justice: Dealing with unexplained wealth through tax law. 

• Lunch

• Round table: Assessing three national regimes: balance and effectivity; benefits and deficiencies

  • Professor Katalin Ligeti (University of Luxembourg): Chair
  • Professor Kilian Wegner (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg): Assessing the German Regime
  • Professor Anna Maria Maugeri (University of Catania): Assessing the Italian Regime
  • Deputy Director-General Anders Schiøtz-Worren (Norwegian Ministry of Justice): Assessing the Norwegian Regime

• Conclusions of the conference and the way forward

  Professor Johan Boucht (BI Norwegian business School), Professor Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach (Adam-Mickiewicz-University) and Professor Frank Meyer (University of Heidelberg)