The Senate passed the Extinction of Ownership Bill on Wednesday, 5 February 2020. The bill would enable the state to seize property originated from, or linked, to criminal law violations. The bill creates the courts of extinction of dominion, obliges citizens to give banking information to the judge, opens the country to international cooperation and homologates foreign sentences as long as they do not contradict the Dominican Constitution and laws. The bill now passes to the Chamber of Deputies for approval.
The bill had been part of the named priority bills listed in Decree No 19-20 by which President Danilo Medina convened an extraordinary legislation.
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El Caribe
10 February 2020