title: Financial sanctions as a weapon for combatting grand corruption
abstract: Financial sanctions might reflect the concerns raised to date about the appropriateness of misappropriation sanctions and their application in practice. Financial sanctions are, along with trade sanctions, a standard feature of economic sanctions. In the European Union (EU) financial sanctions are one of a range of ‘restrictive measures’ that can be imposed on natural or legal persons and groups or non-State entities under Title V of the Treaty on EU and Title IV of the Treaty on the Functioning