Article 24 of Public Funds Protection Law

Where the Public Prosecutor has gathered sufficient indications concerning a person that he has committed one of the offences stipulated in Articles 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 of this Law, he may order that person to be prohibited from travelling and from disposing of and managing his assets, and promptly take such precautionary measures as he considers appropriate in this regard, in respect of all or part of the assets held by the accused or by others, without prejudice to the duty of the injured entities referred to in Article Two of this Law to take all judicial, precautionary, legal and administrative measures on their part, inside and outside the country, to prevent the smuggling of assets. 1( The second paragraph was added pursuant to Law No. 31 of 2004. He may order those measures to be taken in respect of the assets of a wife and minor or adult children or others whenever those assets are connected with the offence. The Public Prosecutor must appoint an agent to manage the assets whose management has been prohibited, upon nomination by the President of the Audit Bureau. A decision specifying the agent’s duties and the rules governing his performance of his work shall be issued by the President of the Bureau. The procedures stipulated in the preceding paragraphs shall apply to the persons and facts subject to Articles 44, 45, 47, 48 of the aforementioned Law No. 31 of 1970.