BUDGET · STRESS TEST · ACCOUNTABILITY

Asset sanctions: how far can accountability go without becoming political confiscation?

A proportionality test for asset-based sanctions on senior office-holders, with independent courts, caps and safeguards.

Asset sanctions: how far can accountability go without becoming political confiscation?
Asset sanctions: how far can accountability go without becoming political confiscation?

Assets can never be an automatic political penalty

separates restitution of illicit enrichment, confiscation already available under criminal law, personal fines and any hypothetical new asset-based penalty that would require prior constitutional expert review.