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Report on the establishment of the #AssetRecoveryOffices in the #EU- #confiscation #corruption

In April 2011 the European Commission published a Report [COM(2011) 176 final] in which evaluates the application of the Decision 2007/845/JHA that “obliges Member States to set up or designate national Asset Recovery Offices (“AROs”) as national central contact points which facilitate, through enhanced cooperation, the fastest possible EU-wide tracing of assets derived from crime”.

The report…

After Microsoft confiscated approximately 23 domains belonging to a United States domain hosting firm named Vitalwerks, who owns the No-IP website, the two parts have finally reached a settlement. At the time of the incident and immediately after the court order was in place, the company managed to recover a part of its domains, but not all.

The civil suit filed by the Redmond giant was based on…