Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts as a basis draft law "On amendments to Penal and Criminal Procedure Codes of Ukraine" (as to implement recommendations of 6th report of European Commission on status of implementation of Visa Liberalisation Action Plan by Ukraine touching improvement of procedure of property arrest and special confiscation institution)

Information Department
16 February 2016, 11:32




The draft law offers to envision opportunity to apply special confiscation in Article 961 of the Penal Code of Ukraine if committed are:

- intentional predicate offense or socially dangerous act that falls under the signs of the crime;

- crime, penalties for which directly imply such confiscation today.

The project also provides for amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, which proposed to allow the seizure of property in criminal proceedings in cases of:

- the necessity to preserve evidence;

- application of special confiscation;

- confiscation as punishment (a measure of criminal law nature) to the individuals (legal entities);

- enforcement of a civil claim or recovery of improper advantage from a legal entity received.

Respective draft law was registered under No. 4054.