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European Confiscation Forum

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

Programme - Thursday 15 October

Programme

  • Time
  • Title

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

  • Welcome

    • Professor Johan Boucht (BI Norwegian business School)
    • Professor Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach (Adam-Mickiewicz-University): Procedural guarantees in unexplained wealth cases
    • Professor Frank Meyer (University of Heidelberg) 

  • International and Regional policy developments (EU, CoE, FATF)

    • Peter Csonka: The EU’s perspective
    • Milan Nikolic (CoE; TBC): The CoE’s perspective
    • Q&A

  • Break

  • Cross-border cooperation in confiscation matters

    • Introduction
    • Alexander Resch (Head of Asset Recovery, Europol): Europol's role in Asset Tracing und Asset Recovery
    • Oberstatsanwalt Rosengarten (Lower-Saxony, Germany): Challenges to effective asset recovery posed by crypto-assets
    • Discussion (12:00-12:30/12:45)

  • Lunch

  • Dealing with unexplained wealth: state of play and constitutional constraints

    • Introduction

    • Professor Andrew Dornbierer (Basel): Introduction to ways of dealing with unexplained wealth: confiscation, criminalisation

    • Professor Frank Meyer (University of Heidelberg): Constitutional limitations on unexplained wealth mechanisms in a liberal state 

  • Break

  • Part 1: Confiscating unexplained wealth

    • Professor Johan Boucht (BI Norwegian Business School): The limits of unexplained wealth confiscation under Art. 1 ECHR-P1
    • Senior Prosecutor Joakim Ziesler Berge (ØKOKRIM, Norway): Infrastructure: practical problems of proving ownership; presumptions/reversed burden of proof
    • Vincenzo Mongillo (University of Rome): The Enigma of Unexplained Wealth Confiscation: The Misuse of Civil Labels and the Real Evidentiary Knots
    • Discussion (16.10-16.30 pm)

  • Dinner