{"id":527922,"date":"2026-03-24T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=527922"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:04:56","slug":"prosecutor-general-s-office-proposes-expanding-confiscation-in-corruption-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/prosecutor-general-s-office-proposes-expanding-confiscation-in-corruption-cases","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor General\u2019s Office Proposes Expanding Confiscation In Corruption Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Prosecutor General\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime <b>Volha Bakhar<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAmendments to the law \u2018On Combating Corruption\u2019 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,\u201d<\/i> she said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office also reported on holding senior officials criminally liable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prosecutor General\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":496265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c253bca9111.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Prosecutor General\u2019s Office Proposes Expanding Confiscation In Corruption Cases"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}