Assets Without Alibi - The ECtHR Approves Confiscating Undeclared Wealth
Hoppe, Tilman
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2025
Verfassungsblog
2025-07-13
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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.
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Hoppe, Tilman
Asset declaration
Confiscation
Corruption
ECtHR
European Court of Human Rights
Korruption
Romanian Constitutional Court
Rumänien
anti-corruption
romania
Korruption
Rumänien
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https://verfassungsblog.de/pacurar-confiscation-romania/
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