Assessing International Asset Recovery Mechanisms and the 'Freeze to Seize' Dilemma

The roundtable aimed at examining additional potential avenues to improve the UK’s ability to move, where a suitable case presents itself, from temporary sanctions-based asset freezes to permanent asset deprivation using human rights-compliant and proportionate tools.

The following is a summary of the views that the different experts shared in this regard, drawing in particular on lessons provided by existing international models.

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