The Commission for Prevention of Corruption and Forfeiture of Illegal Assets (CPCIAF) does not publish up-to-date information on international cooperation outside the annual activity report. The details on the activities performed in 2020 will be provided with the next report, due on March 31, 2021. The annual reports of CPCIAF are available at their website, section “Annual Reports”.

Updated: October 31, 2020

For another year, the Commission for Prevention of Corruption and Forfeiture of Illegal Assets provides information on the international cooperation in their annual activity report. In 2019 the authority reports continued cooperation with the international partner networks (CARIN, SIENA, ARO Platform, Interpol, Europol, UNODC, OECD, GRECO, OLAF, etc.) and informs of establishing of new collaborations at regional level (the Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network, the Regional Anti-corruption Initiative). The full details on the CPCIAF international cooperation activities in 2019 are provided on pages 56-64 of the 2019 Annual activity report (available in Bulgarian language).

Updated: April 30, 2020

The 2019 report by the Commission for Prevention of Corruption and Forfeiture of Illegal Assets (CPCIAF) has been published; however, the files with statistics (evidence 2 & 3) have not yet been released. According to the annual report for year 2019, on the grounds of the new legislation, which has been adopted in early 2018, the CPCIAF commenced a total of 79 cases for forfeiture of illegal assets (5 in 2018 and 74 in 2019). For comparison, the number of cases commenced on the grounds of the repealed laws in the same two-year period amount to 240. For 2019, the CPCIAF reports 14 cases decided in their favor: 23 court decisions entered into force and assets amounting BGN 8,171,657.33 (~4.2 million euro) were subjected to confiscation. For comparison, in 2018 the courts decided on confiscation of BGN 13,100,617.78 (~ 6.5 million euro), all on the grounds of the repealed laws [2,3]. The 2019 report also provides data of actually recovered assets for that year: the National Revenue Agency collected BGN 2,142,079.76 (a bit over 1 million EUR), most of which comes from confiscated real estates. There is no information regarding any allocation of confiscated assets for social purposes.

Updated: October 30, 2019

The Commission for Anticorruption and forfeiture of illegal assets (CACIAF) participates in a number of European and international networks dealing with confiscation of illegal assets, including CARIN, SIENA, ARO platform, ECAB, and MONEYVAL committee. Representatives of the Commission continuously participate in bilateral and multilateral meetings and events. Detailed information on international cooperation during 2018 have been provided in the CACIAF annual activity report (p. 59-66)

Updated: May 30, 2019

No change since spring 2018.

Updated: October 30, 2018

CIAF participates in a number European and international networks dealing with confiscation of illegal assets, including CARIN, SIENA, ARO platform, ECAB, MONEYVAL committee, etc. Representatives of the Commission continuously participate in bilateral and multilateral meetings and events. Detailed information on international cooperation have been provided in the CIAF's activity reports for 2016 year (p. 35) and for 2017 (p. 31)

Updated: June 30, 2018