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Extended Confiscation of Illicit Assets and the Criminal Law: National and EU Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Extended Confiscation of Illicit Assets and the Criminal Law National and EU Perspectives

Edited By Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach Copyright 2026
296 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The European Union is developing instruments which allow law enforcement and judicial authorities to freeze, seize and confiscate illicit assets in a simplified way. Oversimplification of confiscation procedures may, however, result in violation of fundamental rights and general principles of law aimed at ensuring protection of individuals against interference from the State. Such risk exists in... Read more

Introduction
Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach

Part 1: Extended confiscation – national perspectives

1. Extended confiscation in Austria
Kathrin Stiebellehner

2. Extended confiscation in Croatia
Lucija Sokanović

3. Extended confiscation in Czech Republic
Martin Richter

4. Extended confiscation in Finland
Raimo Lahti

5. Extended confiscation in Germany
Michael Kilchling

6. Extended confiscation in Greece
Anna Sakellaraki

7. Extended confiscation in Hungary
Miklós Hollán

8. Extended confiscation in Italy
Anna Maria Maugeri

9. Extended confiscation in Luxembourg
Charlotte Quaisser

10. Extended confiscation in the Netherlands
Johannes Keiler and André Klip

11. Extended confiscation in Poland
Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach

12. Extended confiscation in Portugal
Sandra Oliveira e Silva

13. Extended confiscation in Romania
Dan Moroşan

14. Extended confiscation in Spain
José Luis de la Cuesta

Part 2: Extended confiscation and fundamental rights at the national level

15. Extended confiscation and the right to private property and privacy
Anna Demenko

16. Extended confiscation and legal principles of EU law
Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach                                                      

17. Procedural rights in extended confiscation proceedings
Gaetano Ancona

18. Extended confiscation in the case-law of European courts
Jacek Stanisławski

Part 3: Extended confiscation – EU perspectives

19. Extended confiscation and human rights
Johan Boucht

20. Europeanisation of national concepts: Extended confiscation from the EU perspective
Martin Heger

21. A plea for the application of criminal law principles in the area of asset recovery
Holger Matt

22. Extended confiscation and modern criminal law
Frank Meyer

Conclusion
Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach

Biography

Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach is Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research interests focus on responses to crime, impact of conviction on third parties and victim status in criminal law. She is the author of publications in Polish, English and German, in the field of criminal law, and a participant in international research projects in criminal law and victimology.

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