October 29 2019, Academy of Justice within its Continuous Training Program in cooperation with the B&S Project on “Further support to Kosovo institutions in combating organized crime, corruption and violent extremism”, organized training on Sequestration and Confiscation.
Purpose of this training was to extend professional knowledge of participants with legal provisions of the new Law on Extended Powers on Sequestration and Confiscation (LEPSC).
In this training, national and international experts elaborated on the following: new institutes of the Law on Extended powers on confiscation, compliance and continuity of provisions of sequestration and confiscation with basic laws like the CCRK and CPCR with the old Law on Extended Powers on Sequestration and Confiscation and the new one, compliance of the new institutes in this new LEPSC with Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo and the ECHR.
Particular attention was paid to measures that may be proposed for ensuring assets and what are provisional measures for ensuring property for which the state prosecutor has articulate evidence that show grounded suspicion that it has been used in a criminal matter under investigation, is evidence of a criminal offence under investigation, or has been acquired through a criminal offence under investigation. Beforehand, the training presented examples, analyzed methods for identification of assets, and the sequestration and confiscation process of criminally acquired proceeds.
Beneficiaries of this training were judges, prosecutors and administrative staff of courts and prosecution offices from different regions of Kosovo.
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