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.
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.