This article is about the confiscation/forfeiture of assets in common law countries. For cross-border recovery of the proceeds of corruption, see International asset recovery.
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Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities. In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial obligation. It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instruments of crime. This applies, but is not limited, to terrorist activities, drug-related crimes, and other criminal and even civil offenses. Some jurisdictions specifically use the term "confiscation" instead of forfeiture. The alleged purpose of asset forfeiture is to disrupt criminal activity by confiscating assets that potentially could have been beneficial to the individual or organization.
Assetforfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities. In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial...
civil forfeiture (also called civil assetforfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture) is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people...
reaction of a drug-sniffing dog would not create probable cause for civil forfeiture. Banknote collecting, or notaphily, is a slowly growing area of numismatics...
(1950). Civil assetforfeiture or occasionally civil seizure, is a controversial legal process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons...
Attorney's Office for New York's Southern District filed a civil assetforfeiture case against Prevezon Holdings Limited, a real estate holding company...
the former head of the police's Crime Intelligence Division. The AssetForfeiture Unit (AFU) was established in May 1999, to give effect to certain provisions...
inaction during riots or mass shootings.[citation needed] Rules on civil assetforfeiture allow law enforcement officers to seize anything which they can plausibly...
also lost. A ruling involving assetforfeiture law in the United States held that if an offender satisfied a forfeiture judgment, the government is never...
The Treasury Executive Office for AssetForfeiture (TEOAF) is an agency of the United States federal government in the United States Department of the...
Often, police will auction items confiscated via police auction or assetforfeiture and keep the proceeds. Theoretically, it is possible for owners to...
of NXIVM-related entities and their intellectual property through assetforfeiture. The NXIVM Corporation was based in the New York Capital District and...
In current United States legal practice, in rem suits are primarily assetforfeiture cases, based on drug laws, as in USA v. $124,700 (2006). Defendants...
Supreme Court ruled that the Excessive Fines Clause does apply to civil assetforfeiture actions taken by the federal government, in the specific case, the...
Grant, Wingate; et al. (eds.). Stolen Asset Recovery: A Good Practices Guide for Non-Conviction Based AssetForfeiture. The International Bank for Reconstruction...
unknown owner.[citation needed] The use of this kind of jurisdiction in assetforfeiture cases is controversial because it has been increasingly used in situations...
In July 2020, US Department of Justice prosecutors alleged in an assetforfeiture filing that Khaled Al-Jarrah and two others set up unauthorized accounts...
Union on criminal justice reform, specifically in the realm of civil assetforfeiture. The Kochs have also worked to push legislation aiming to adjust federal...
financing its Cannabis Eradication Program through civil assetforfeiture. Amash took aim at assetforfeiture in a statement, saying the practice allows "innocent...
are distinct from assetforfeiture, the seizing of assets acquired directly as a result of criminal activity. Where assetforfeiture intends to remove...
American law, the deodand has been cited as a source for the modern civil forfeiture doctrine. The constitutions of New Hampshire and Vermont prohibit deodands...
Claims, now Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and AssetForfeiture Actions. The FRCP were rewritten with respect to style, effective December...
Disgorgement is the act of giving up something on demand or by legal compulsion, for example giving up profits that were obtained illegally. In United...
just to do so..." Asset freezing is not a security, nor a means to pressure a judgment debtor, nor is it a type of assetforfeiture since it does not...
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