European Confiscation Forum

Programme

• Time
• Title

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

• Registration

• Welcome

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

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

  • Peter Csonka: The EU’s perspective
  • Mr. Milan Nikolic (Administrator at Moneyval, Council of Europe): 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
  • Carsten Rosengarten (Oberstatsanwalt, Lower-Saxony, Germany):Challenges to effective asset recovery posed by crypto-assets
  • Discussion (12:00-12:30/12:45)

• Lunch at Fine Dining, 7th floor (A7)

• Break

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

  • Introduction

  • Mr. Andrew Dornbierer (Basel Institute of Governance): 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
  • Public Prosecutor Joakim Ziesler Berge (ØKOKRIM, Norway): Presumptions in Money Laundering and Confiscation Legislation: Challenges, Alternatives, and Practical Experience.
  • Professor Vincenzo Mongillo (Luiss University, Rome): The Enigma of Unexplained Wealth Confiscation: The Misuse of Civil Labels and the Real Evidentiary Knots
  • Discussion (16.10-16.30 pm)

• Dinner