The commissioner or the commissioner's delegate shall have charge of all real estate that is or shall become the property of the state by judgment of forfeiture under any provision of this or any other title, or that has been or shall be assigned, set off, or conveyed by purchase or otherwise to the state in payment of debts or penalties arising thereunder, or that has been or shall be vested in the state by mortgage or other security for the payment of such debts, or that has been redeemed by the state, and of all trusts created for the use of the state in payment of such debts due them.