Confiscation and Extended Confiscation in Macedonian Criminal Law

Abstract

The increase of crime that directly or indirectly acquire proceeds, necessarily causes an increase of the methods and means which has influence to the suppression of this type of crime. In this respect, the modern penal legislation, special attention and space, devoted to the promotion of the measure, confiscation of property and proceeds acquired by criminal act, either as a penal sanction, punishment or a separate criminal legal measure.

Applying this measure should establish the former legal situation, before committing the offense, it saps the power of criminal offenders for further illegal activities and the potential perpetrators are referred to a message that will be no able to retain proceeds from offense, or that the perpetration of the offense would not worth. Hence, the seizure of proceeds acquired by criminal act logically tends, as an influential tool in crime prevention aimed at acquiring property.

Keywords: confiscation, extended confiscation, criminal offence, proceeds, burden of proof