Exécution des mesures de confiscation

Slovaquie

Criminal Code

PART ONE
GENERAL PART

CHAPTER TWO
SANCTIONS

Title Three
Imposition and Execution of Individual Sentences

Forfeiture of Property
Section 58

(1) Taking account of the circumstances, under which the criminal offence was committed and the personal situation of the offender, the court may order the forfeiture of property of the offender whom it sentences to life imprisonment or to unconditional imprisonment for a particularly serious felony, through which the offender gained or tried to gain large-scale property benefits or caused large-scale damage.

(2) The court shall order the forfeiture of property even in the absence of the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 when sentencing perpetrators of criminal offences of illicit manufacturing and possession of narcotics or psychotropic substances, poisons or precursors, and trafficking in them pursuant to Section 172 paragraphs 2, 3 or 4, or Section 173, criminal offence of trafficking in human beings pursuant to Section 179, criminal offence of trafficking in children pursuant to Section 180 paragraphs 2 or 3 or Section 181, criminal offence of extortion pursuant to Section 189 paragraph 2 (c), criminal offence of gross coercion pursuant to Section 190 paragraphs 1, 3, 4 or 5, or Section 191 paragraphs 3 or 4, criminal offence of coercion pursuant to Section 192 paragraphs 3 or 4, criminal offence of sharing pursuant to Section 231 paragraphs 2, 3 or 4, or Section 232 paragraphs 3 or 4, criminal offence of legalisation of proceeds of crime pursuant to Section 233 or 234, criminal offence of forgery, fraudulent alteration and illicit manufacturing of money and securities pursuant to Section 270, criminal offence of uttering counterfeit, fraudulently altered and illicitly manufactured money and securities pursuant to Section 271 paragraph 1, criminal offence of manufacturing and possession of instruments for counterfeiting and forgery pursuant to Section 272 paragraph 2, criminal offence of failure to pay tax and insurance pursuant to Section 277, criminal offence of failure to pay tax pursuant to Section 278 paragraphs 2 or 3, criminal offence of breach of regulations governing state technical measures for labelling goods pursuant to Section 279 paragraphs 2 or 3, criminal offence of establishing, masterminding and supporting a criminal group pursuant to Section 296, establishing, masterminding and supporting a terrorist group pursuant to Section 297, criminal offence of terror pursuant to Section 313 or Section 314, criminal offence of accepting a bribe pursuant to Section 328 paragraph 2 or 3, or Section 329 paragraphs 2 or 3, criminal offence of bribery pursuant to Section 334 paragraph 2 or Section 335 paragraph 2, criminal offence of countefeiting and altering a public instrument, official seal, official seal-off, official emblem and official mark pursuant to Section 352 paragraph 6, criminal offence of smuggling of migrants pursuant to Section 355 or Section 356, criminal offence of procuring and soliciting prostitution pursuant to Section 367 paragraph 3, criminal offence of manufacturing of child pornography pursuant to Section 368, criminal offence of dissemination of child pornography pursuant to Section 369, criminal offence of corrupting morals pursuant to Section 372 paragraphs 2 or 3, or criminal offence of terrorism and some forms of participation on terrorism pursuant to Section 419, if the offender has acquired his property or part thereof from the proceeds of crime at least in the substantial extent.

Section 59

(1) The penalty of the forfeiture of property shall recover in the extent that belongs to the sentenced person in the execution of the penalty of the forfeiture of propery after the end of bankruptcy proceedings,

a) proceeds of encachment of property,
b) the property that is excluded from the bankruptcy estate,
c) the property subject to the bankruptcy proceedings if the encachment of property was
not reached.

(2) The forfeited property shall, unless the court decides otherwise on the basis of a promulgated international treaty binding for the Slovak Republic, become a property of the State.

(3) The final decision on the forfeiture of property shall result in the dissolution of community property of spouses.

Section 60
Forfeiture of a Thing

(1) The court shall order the forfeiture of a thing, which was

a) used to commit a criminal offence,
b) intended to be used to commit a criminal offence,
c) obtained by means of a criminal offence, or as remuneration for committing a criminal offence, or
d) obtained by the offender in exchange for a thing referred to in c).

(2) If the thing referred to in paragraph 1 is inaccessible or unidentifiable, or is merged with the property of the offender, or with the property of another person obtained by lawful means, the court may impose the forfeiture of a thing whose value corresponds to the value of the thing referred to in paragraph 1.

(3) An inaccessible thing shall mean a thing that has been destroyed, damaged, lost, stolen, rendered unusable, consumed, hidden, transferred to another person for the purpose of excluding it from the competence of criminal procedure authorities, or a thing removed in a different manner, or the costs saved.

(4) A thing within the meaning of paragraph 1 shall also mean the proceeds of crime, as well as profits, interests, or other benefits arising from such proceeds or things.

(5) The court may impose the sentence of forfeiture of a thing only if the thing belongs to the offender.

(6) The forfeited thing shall, unless the court decides otherwise on the basis of a promulgated international treaty binding for the Slovak Republic, become a property of the State.

(7) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if

a) the victim is entitled to a compensation for damage caused by the offence, which the forfeiture of a thing would make impossible,
b) the value of the thing is prima facie disproportionate to the gravity of the minor offence, or
c) the court waives the punishment of the offender.

Statut de Rome

Article 109 Exécution des peines d'amende et de mesures de confiscation

1. Les États Parties font exécuter les peines d'amende et les mesures de confiscation ordonnées par la Cour en vertu du chapitre VII, sans préjudice des droits des tiers de bonne foi et conformément à la procédure prévue par leur législation interne.

2. Lorsqu'un État Partie n'est pas en mesure de donner effet à l'ordonnance de confiscation, il prend des mesures pour récupérer la valeur du produit, des biens ou des avoirs dont la Cour a ordonné la confiscation, sans préjudice des droits des tiers de bonne foi.

3. Les biens, ou le produit de la vente de biens immobiliers ou, le cas échéant, d'autres biens, obtenus par un État Partie en exécution d'un arrêt de la Cour sont transférés à la Cour.