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title: "Asset Forfeiture"
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description: "Asset forfeiture in Georgia: enforcing confiscation judgments, seizure, protected property and auction. Legal.ge."
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updated: "2026-10-14"
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# Asset Forfeiture

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Asset forfeiture in Georgia reaches the enforcement stage through the Law of Georgia on Enforcement Proceedings. Confiscation as a sanction is imposed by the criminal or the administrative court; the enforcement law then determines which decisions are subject to execution and how the actual taking of property proceeds — seizure, inventory and realisation. This page explains that machinery under Articles 2, 40, 44, 45 and 49 of the law.

## Which decisions on forfeiture are enforceable

Under subparagraph 'b' of Article 2, a court conviction in a criminal case that has entered into legal force, imposing a fine and/or deprivation of property on a natural and/or legal person as a penalty, is subject to execution under this law. Subparagraph 'b1' adds the conviction imposing on the person the obligation to pay compensation to the victim.

On the administrative track, subparagraph 'd' makes enforceable the court decision in an administrative-offence case that has entered into legal force, in the part imposing property payment and an administrative fine. The law thus distinguishes criminal confiscation, victim compensation and administrative property sanctions — but the machinery of execution is common to all of them. Among enforceable titles the law also lists the notarial act, the pledge certificate, an arbitration award, a decision of a foreign court and a decision of the European Court of Human Rights binding on Georgia.

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### Which act grounds forfeiture?

A conviction in legal force or a court decision in an administrative-offence case.

### Can essential items be confiscated?

No — property protected by Article 45 is not subject to seizure or confiscation.

### How is realisation carried out?

Items are sold at a public auction; the sum, minus costs, goes to the creditor.

### Who answers for disposal after seizure?

Any attempt at disposal triggers criminal liability.