"confiscation by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act or process of someone taking away an item or property. For example: "After the police discovered the illegal firearms in his home, there was a confiscation by the state authorities."
Possession of camera cell-phones will lead to confiscation by the authorities.
In Marcus's house, books are nailed to the ceiling to escape confiscation by the Taliban.
He was arrested in October after leading a farmers' protest against land confiscation by big companies with government connections.
Not only did they not have access to running water, even water tanks were subject to periodic confiscation by the Israeli Army".
After the Reign of Terror, he was deputized with Monge and others to sort and select cultural objects for confiscation by France during the Italian theatre of operations.
"The forced labour, mass evictions, land and food confiscation by the military are a flagrant contravention of human rights as well as international and domestic law".
Growing nationalism on the part of Armenians provoked massacres by the Turks and confiscations by the Russians.
The government has justified the confiscations by saying that it was breaking up monopolies or stopping breaches of labour or environmental rules.
She has authored more than 700 articles about social issues, including the mistreatment of children, official corruption, unfair taxation of poor people, and peasant grievances connected to illegal land confiscations by local officials.
The Palestinian Authority's mapmaker, Khalil Tufakji, has charted a series of land confiscations by the army that he says includes 27 square miles in this area near Jenin, long strips near the now-invisible line separating the Israelis and Palestinians and other chunks of private land inside the West Bank.
"The anticipated currency swap is simply another episode in a long series of asset confiscations by the Castro regime".
