La directiva 2014/42/ue sobre el embargo y el decomiso de los instrumentos y del producto del delito en la ue:Decomiso ampliado y presunción de inocencia
ISSN: 1132-7170, 2530-9854
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: Garantias procesales de investigados y acusados: Situación actual en el ámbito de la Union Europea
Issue: 1
Pages: 20-32
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Estudios Europeos
Abstract
The Directive 2014/42/UE of 3 April 2014 on the freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union is the latest step taken to date in its' «Crime doesn' t pay» strategy, which proposes to fight organized crime and the worst forms of economic crime, which are both profit-seeking, by depriving the proceeds of crime, with the double aim of discouraging these activities and avoiding the reinvestment of those proceeds in subsequent offenses. To this end, the limits of the classic seizure, in which there is a clear causal link between the criminal acts prosecuted and the product, have been broadened, resulting in modern forms of confiscation, especially confiscation without conviction, third party confiscation and extended confiscation, in which this nexus is blurred. Possible interference with the principle of presumption of innocence is one of the concerns about confiscation, and this will be the subject of this communication, in which we will outline the main positions of jurisprudence, both the ECHR and the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court.