Department of Criminal Law
Assistant Professor
email: ariadna.ochnio@inp.pan.pl
Principal investigator in a research project: “Standards for the confiscation of the proceeds of crime set in European Union law and their impact on Polish, German, French and English criminal law” (National Science Centre, Poland, OPUS, no. 2019/33/B/HS5/01617); research team leader: „The ‘unexplained wealth order’: a promising tool for a comprehensive EU strategy to combat transnational money laundering and corruption?” (National Science Centre, OPUS, no. 2022/45/B/HS5/03080l). Laureate of competitions of the National Science Centre: Opus-23, Opus-17, Miniatura-2.
Visiting academic: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law. Visiting scholar: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (Heidelberg); Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg). Research visits: University of Limerick, Ollscoil Luimnigh, Leabharlann Glucksman, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
Member of Standing Group on Organised Crime, Standing Group on the European Union (European Consortium for Political Research), Towarzystwo Naukowe Prawa Karnego, Association Internationale De Droit Pénal, University Association for Contemporary European Studies, European Criminal Law Academic Network, Lazarski University Expert Board.
The latest publication (Open Access): Ariadna H. Ochnio, Recent developments in EU anti-corruption strategy: the missing element of the return of corrupt assets to “victim countries”, Journal of Money Laundering Control 2024, Vol. 27 No. 7, pp. 1-12, Emerald Publishing, Lic. CC-BY, https://doi.org/10.1108/JMLC-11-2023-0176.
Reserch interest:
- criminal procedure,
- criminal procedure,
- criminal law,
- EU criminal law, cooperation in criminal matters,
- EU criminal justice policy,
- freezing and seizure of assets,
- confiscation, forfeiture,
- Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT),
- anti-tax fraud policy (VAT fraud),
- economic criminal law,
- human rights in criminal proceedings.
Research projects
- „The ‘unexplained wealth order’: a promising tool for a comprehensive EU strategy to combat transnational money laundering and corruption?” (2023-2027), National Science Centre, OPUS 23, no. 2022/45/B/HS5/03080l,
- Standards for the Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime set in European Union Law and their Impact on Polish, German, French and English Criminal Law, (2020-2023), National Science Centre, OPUS 17, no. 2019/33/B/HS5/01617,
- The Principles for Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime in French, German and English Criminal Law, (2018-2019), National Science Centre, Miniatura 2, no. 2018/02/X/HS5/01663,
- New Solutions for Depriving the Criminal Assets in European Union Law and Polish Criminal Law, (2014-2015), the special purpose grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education to help develop young scientists.
