nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/8d5ead9e6b047d5c DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250713s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/8d5ead9e6b047d5c doi eng 342 23 Hoppe, Tilman Author aut Assets Without Alibi - The ECtHR Approves Confiscating Undeclared Wealth Hoppe, Tilman Verfassungsblog 2025-07-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Păcurar is yet another version of the familiar cat-and-mouse game between anticorruption agencies and corrupt public officials: some public officials quietly amass real estate, luxury cars, financial investments, or cash, and – once confronted by anticorruption agencies to explain the difference from their declared legal income – rely on whimsical excuses. On 24 June 2025, the ECtHR held that wealth may be taken away if public officials cannot explain that very difference. This ruling completes the ECtHR’s endorsement of civil law instruments in the fight against corruption by fully disconnecting confiscation from any link to a crime. CC BY-SA 4.0 Asset declaration Confiscation Corruption ECtHR European Court of Human Rights Korruption Romanian Constitutional Court Rumänien anti-corruption romania (DE-588)4032524-6 gnd Korruption (DE-588)4050939-4 gnd Rumänien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/pacurar-confiscation-romania/ raw object