# FATF R.4 — Confiscation and provisional measures - **Part of:** [[FATF Recommendations]] Countries must prioritise asset recovery and enable their competent authorities to identify, trace and evaluate criminal property, suspend or withhold consent to a transaction, take provisional measures such as freezing and seizing, confiscate with and without a conviction, enforce confiscation orders and manage frozen, seized or confiscated property. ## Keyed AMLR articles _none_ ## Further AMLR connections - [[AMLR Art. 71 - Refraining from transactions|AMLR Art. 71]] — AMLR Art. 71 makes obliged entities refrain from suspicious transactions pending the FIU's instructions; R.4(b) requires authorities to be able to suspend or withhold consent to a transaction. *(related)* ## Swiss counterparts - [[GwG Art. 10 - Freezing of assets|GwG Art. 10]] — GwG Art. 10 makes the financial intermediary freeze reported assets for up to five working days until a prosecution authority's order arrives; R.4 concerns the authorities' own powers to freeze, seize and confiscate. *(related)* ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- FATF Recommendation 4 — text of the Recommendation (FATF Recommendations, updated June 2026); interpretive note not reproduced > **4. Confiscation and provisional measures** > Countries should ensure that they have policies and operational frameworks that prioritise asset recovery in both the domestic and international context. > Taking into account the Vienna Convention, the Palermo Convention, the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the Terrorist Financing Convention, countries should have measures, including legislative measures, to enable their competent authorities to: > a) identify, trace and evaluate criminal property and property of corresponding value; > b) suspend or withhold consent to a transaction; > c) take any appropriate investigative measures; > d) expeditiously carry out provisional measures, such as freezing and seizing, to prevent any dealing, transfer or disposal of criminal property and property of corresponding value; > e) confiscate criminal property and property of corresponding value through conviction-based confiscation; > f) confiscate criminal property through non-conviction based confiscation; > g) enforce a resulting confiscation order; and > h) ensure effective management of property that is frozen, seized or confiscated.