Seizure of property under the Law on Aggravating the Punishment of Perpetrators of Bribery, Embezzlement, and Fraud differs from confiscation (Mosadereh).

What is currently being done in the Islamic Republic against this law is seizure by the prosecutor and the investigator.

Confiscation is possible after the court has issued a definitive verdict of conviction, which, of course, according to the explicit text of the law and the last part of Note 5 of Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code, "in every case where a verdict is issued to confiscate property, the normal living expenses of the convicted person and his dependents must be excluded."

If the defendant is not in Iran and does not attend the court by himself or his lawyer, it is an absentee vote, and both absentee and present votes can be appealed to the issuing court and the Supreme Court.