Application of the Principle of a Good Faith Purchaser in the Crime of Motor Vehicle Embezzlement

Good-faith buyers and the true or original owners of an item often become victims or suffer losses when a crime occurs, particularly embezzlement. This occurs because the perpetrator (defendant) of the embezzlement crime has transferred (sold) the embezzled item to another party (the buyer), who is sometimes unaware that the item originated from the embezzlement crime. Therefore, problems arise when the judge examining and adjudicating the case sentences the defendant and orders that the evidence be returned to the true owner (the original owner) or handed over to the purportedly good-faith buyer. This raises the question of who should be protected in such cases: the true owner (the original owner) or the good-faith buyer. Therefore, it would be interesting to discuss this issue in more depth in this study.