To combat transnational organized crime, the States focus their efforts target the economic aspect of organized crime, this being the new strategy of criminal policy. To achieve this, confiscation, considered a sui generis measure, acquires relevance and becomes the effective instrument to recover assets of illegal origin. Falling on the instruments, products and proceeds of crime. In this article, a concept of confiscation will be determined after the analysis of comparative legislations and supranational norms, as well as the different modalities of confiscation and its legal nature. Will be addressed confiscation and its compatibility with the limits of the ius puniendi. Likewise, the confiscation and its regulation in Nicaraguan crimina...