CODE OF VIRGINIA

SEIZURE OF PROPERTY USED IN CONNECTION WITH MONEY LAUNDERING (§ 19.2-386.19)

The following property shall be subject to lawful seizure by any officer charged
with enforcing the provisions of Article 9 (§ 18.2-246.1 et seq.) of Chapter 6
of Title 18.2: (i) all money, equipment, motor vehicles, and all other personal
and real property of any kind or character used in substantial connection with
the laundering of proceeds of some form of activity punishable as a felony under
the laws of the Commonwealth, another state or territory of the United States,
the District of Columbia, or the United States; (ii) all money or other
property, real or personal, traceable to the proceeds of some form of activity
punishable as a felony under the laws of the Commonwealth, another state or
territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the United States,
together with any interest or profits derived from the investment of such
proceeds or other property; and (iii) all money, equipment, motor vehicles, and
all other personal and real property of any kind or character used to or
intended to be used to promote money laundering. Real property shall not be
subject to seizure unless the minimum prescribed punishment for the violation is
a term of imprisonment of not less than five years. All seizures and forfeitures
under this section shall be governed by Chapter 22.1 (§ 19.2-386.1 et seq.),
and the procedures specified therein shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to all
forfeitures under Article 9 (§ 18.2-246.1 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of Title 18.2.

HISTORY: 1999, c. 348, § 18.2-246.4; 2003, cc. 541, 549; 2004, c. 995; 2012,
cc. 283, 756.