Waiting for the Law to Confiscat Illegal Wealth

The Justice Ministry has handed over to the Parliament the draft law on expanded competencies for the seizure of property, which will be used for the verification and seizure of convicts for 16 criminal acts, ranging from convicts for corruption to those who have committed criminal acts for the environment. If this bill is voted [...]
If this bill is voted such a vote, as the Ministry of Justice proposed, then after a defendant is convicted of a definite criminal offence, the State Prosecutor makes a special request to the court, which has issued the indictment and may require verification of property within the five-year period, after the offense becomes of a formal form and then confiscated it, KTV reports.
In parallel with it, however, Vetevendosje proposed another bill, which in effect claimed to regulate the issue of verifying unwarranted property that does not affect the Justice Ministry bill.
Albert Krasniqi from KDI, says it would have to be more effective to become a single law and have better co-ordination between the executive and the legislature.
But their work was dismissed, as unlike the draft law on the expanded competencies of property seizures, here the burden of evidence was preempted to fall on the defendant.
According to MPs, the danger was that he creates situations for him to be misused by powerful people to persecute political opponents.
Even according to the Civil Society, such a change in the justice system is not acceptable.
In legal terms, there are 3 systems of property seizures, criminal seizures, civil and mix.
According to Arton Demahasey, Kosovo would do well to select the mix version, because of the specifics the country is going through.
The Law for Expanded Complication of Riches has been one of the EU requirements for the visa liberalisation process.











