Intervention in the criminal proceedings of third parties affected by the confiscation

Abstract

The transposition to Spain of the Directive 2014/42/UE, on the attachment order and the confiscation of the
instruments and the proceeds of the crime in the European Union, has been the reform of the Penal code and the Law
of Criminal Procedure, giving to our legal system of Some instruments that are supposedly effective in the fight against
economic crime from the perspective of the seizure of the profits generated by this criminal activity. Therefore, the
objective of our paper is to analyse the intervention in the criminal proceeding of the third parties affected by the confis-
cation. To this end, we will examine the legal regime of the confiscation, the call to the process of the third parties, the
specialties of their intervention and summons to trial, the possible behaviors that they can take, as well as the judgment
and the regime of resources.