Enforcement of forfeiture orders

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan - Criminal Code (EN) 1999

General provision

SECTION III
ABOUT PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER 9
CONCEPT, PURPOSES OF PUNISHMENT AND KINDS OF PUNISHMENTS

Article 51. Confiscation of property

51.1. Confiscation of property is compulsory gratuitous withdrawal to the property of the state of instruments and means, used by condemned at commitment of a crime, and also a property extracted in criminal way.

51.2. Confiscation of property is appointed only in the cases provided by appropriate articles of the Especial part of the present Code.

51.3 Is excluded by the law of the Azerbaijan Republic from July 2, 2001.

Rome Statute

Article 109 Enforcement of fines and forfeiture measures

1. States Parties shall give effect to fines or forfeitures ordered by the Court under Part 7, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties, and in accordance with the procedure of their national law.

2. If a State Party is unable to give effect to an order for forfeiture, it shall take measures to recover the value of the proceeds, property or assets ordered by the Court to be forfeited, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.

3. Property, or the proceeds of the sale of real property or, where appropriate, the sale of other property, which is obtained by a State Party as a result of its enforcement of a judgement of the Court shall be transferred to the Court.