Resumen de Egyptian law on the sequestration and confiscation of property acquired through smuggling and trafficking in drugs

Maysaa El Sayed Zaki

• Drug control legislation in Egypt provides for the confiscation of objects and vehicles used in the commission of drug-related crime, and for these to be handed over for the use of the law-enforcement bodies if such objects and vehicles are considered essential to law enforcement. The legislation also provides for the sequestration of property illegally acquired through illicit drug traffic.