Article 41 Federal Criminal Code

The objects or securities that are found at the disposal of the investigating authorities or of the judicial ones, that have not been forfeited and that are not collected by whoever has the right to do so, in a period of ninety calendar days, counted from the notification to the interested party, shall be sold at public auction and the product of the sale shall be applied to whoever has the right to receive it. If notified, he does not appear within the six following months from the date of the notification, the product of the sale shall be destined to the improvement of the administration of justice, after the deductions of the expenses occasioned.

In the case of assets that are found at the disposal of the authority, that must not be destroyed and that cannot be preserved or are of costly maintenance, their immediate sale at public auction shall proceed, and the product shall be left at the disposal of whoever has the right to it for a period of six months from the notification that is made to him, after which it shall be applied to the improvement of the administration of justice.