The Prosecutor General’s Office is proposing to expand the list of property subject to confiscation in corruption cases. Currently, confiscation applies only to property acquired illegally, but the Prosecutor General’s Office wants to tighten the rules and seize all property whose lawful origin has not been proven. This was stated at a press conference at the House of Press by Senior Prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime Volha Bakhar.
“Amendments to the law ‘On Combating Corruption’ are currently being prepared, providing for the possibility of seizing from all categories of public officials and their close relatives property whose lawful origin they cannot legally confirm,” she said.
Last year, prosecutors initiated 132 criminal cases following inspections of compliance with anti-corruption legislation, issued more than 2,500 supervisory acts, initiated disciplinary, administrative, and financial liability proceedings against more than 3,500 officials, and secured the dismissal of 17 individuals from their positions.
The Prosecutor General’s Office also reported on holding senior officials criminally liable.
