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E. ASSETS - FREEZING, CONFISCATION AND RESTITUTION

  • Assets - Freezing, Confiscation and Restitution (E.1 – E.4)
  • E.1 Freezing of assets (for the freezing for the purpose of securing evidence please see A.31)
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Measure Implementation

Is this measure possible in your Member State under International Judicial Cooperation?

The request must be accompanied by the original freezing certificate issued in the issuing state together with a translation into English or Maltese. The request must indicate precisely what bank accounts are required to be frozen.

Legal Framework

International legal framework applicable for this measure in your Member State

Regulation 2018/1805 CoE Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (2005)

Competent Authority

* receive the request/decision for judicial cooperation

Asset Recovery Bureau

Accepted languages

Accepted languages for the request/decision

Maltese or English

Execution deadline

Deadlines for the execution of the request/decision (where applicable)

N/A

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Special requirements

For the purpose of Article 9 of the CoE Convention, Malta has declared that this shall apply only in so far as the offence is punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a maximum of more than one year.

Last reviewed on 22 September 2022 by EJN Secretariat

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