Confiscation of unlawfully acquired assets, with special emphasis on Kosovo

Abstract

The subject of this study is confiscation of unlawfully acquired assets’, with special focus on Kosovo. The study centers in handling of the notion and types of confiscation, purpose of confiscation, confiscation decision making authorities’, confiscation procedure and administration of confiscated assets. Moreover, this study presents and elaborates few pertinent data on confiscation of assets and highlights some challenges, problems, and advantages of the confiscation institute. The results of this study confirm that confiscation of assets in Kosovo impacted directly in fighting and dismantling of few organized criminal groups and activities, however, there are yet multiple tasks to be completed, few of which are rather challenging. Further in this study are prescribed the activities of Courts and other relevant institutions in Kosovo related with confiscation of unlawfully acquired assets, in addition there are specific measures prescribed to promote their effectivity in this matter while addressing the requirements of the law and Kosovo society in overall. For purposes of this paper were used legal, comparative, descriptive, case study and statistical methods.