The social re-use of assets confiscated from organized crime

This video explains what social re-use of confiscated assets is and why is it important to give back to society what has been illegally taken away by organized crime groups. Social re-use of confiscated assets from organized crime contributes to restoring communities’ confidence in the rule of law and promotes their involvement in the fight against organized crime.

About the project:

The OSCE’s extra-budgetary project, “Strengthening the fight against transnational organized crime in South-Eastern Europe through improved regional co-operation in asset seizure, confiscation, management and re-use”, aims at improving the effectiveness of the fight against transnational organized crime and corruption in the OSCE region by improving regional co-operation among five participating States (pS) in South-Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The project adopts a comprehensive approach by providing support for the entire cycle of asset tackling, which has been divided into three areas of intervention: (1) investigations, asset seizure and asset confiscation; (2) asset management; and (3) asset re-use.  

For more information on the project and the OSCE’s work in this area, please visit https://www.osce.org/projects/asset-recovery-in-south-eastern-europe.