...Mykola М. Biloshkurskyi Purpose This study aims to examine how two key anti-corruption instruments – criminal liability for illicit enrichment and the civil forfeiture of unjustified assets – operate in a transitional economy, tracing the trends in their application in Ukraine. Design...

...-corruption agencies. Thus, there is the need for transparency; law on civil forfeiture of proceeds of corruption; bilateral treaties; and mutual legal assistance on investigation, confiscation among countries for tracing and returning of proceeds of corruption. The estimates of the volume of assets...

... was transferred multiple times and some of it ended up in other banks. To recover the money under Section 981(k), the USA filed a civil forfeiture action against funds that AIB and the other banks had on deposit in correspondent accounts at banks in New York. For its part, AIB contested the action by filing...

...Stefan D. Cassella Purpose Civil forfeiture is an increasingly common way for governments to relieve criminal wrongdoers of the proceeds of their crimes and to restore the property to the victims of the offense. The question that is asked, however, is this: Is civil forfeiture an essential tool...

... of the criminalization of illicit enrichment proves to be less promising than that of civil forfeiture. First, it is contentious in the context of proportionality and ultima ratio. Second, it may infringe upon the prohibition of self-incrimination. Third, it appears that collecting sufficient evidence...

.... Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 (AMLATFA) provides power to forfeit proceeds at the end of proceedings. This paper aims to investigate whether the current civil forfeiture regime in Malaysia is effective in fighting against money laundering. This paper will be based...

... laundering investigations (Financial Action Task Force, 2010e). Robert G. Kroeker can be contacted at: rgkroeke@telus.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Anti-money laundering Proceeds of crime Civil forfeiture Forfeiture Mutual legal assistance treaty Non-conviction asset...

... information about criminal activity and some claim of wealth accumulation. Taxation Tax Proceeds of crime Global Civil forfeiture Legislation Case law Crime Proposed as a strategy for tackling criminal revenues, the taxation of the proceeds of crime proves less a new approach than a need...