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European Confiscation Forum

Special topic: Dealing with unexplained wealth: confiscation, criminalisation, or taxation?

Programme - Friday 16 October

Programme

  • Time
  • Title

  • Part 2: Criminalising unexplained wealth

    • PhD-candidate Jasna Klotz: 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
    • Alternative to criminal justice: Dealing with unexplained wealth through tax law. (representative from the Norwegian Tax Authority, TBA)

  • Break

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

    • Professor Katalin Ligeti (University of Luxembourg): Chair
    • Professor Kilian Wegner: 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)