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Monday, November 24, 2003
“Courts seize criminals’ assets: Drug dealers are being targeted under the new laws
More than ?1.5m has been seized from criminals in Scotland under new powers to confiscate their assets. The Proceeds of Crime Act aims to target the ill-gotten gains of the “untouchables” of the crime world. . .” BBC“Crime Cash Confiscated: Scots criminals have lost more than one and a half million pounds of assets under tough new legal powers to confiscate the profits of crime. . .” Grampian TV
“Dealers stripped of ?1.5m but Mr Big escapes: [. . .] Announcing the first figures from a drive to attack the finances of Scotland?s underworld, First Minister Jack McConnell said the legislation was designed to target previously “untouchable” crime lords and put an end to their “lavish lifestyles”. However, the newly created Civil Recovery Unit admitted it had not managed to strip assets from any of Scotland?s ?Mr Bigs?. . .” Scotland on Sunday
“Scotland loses cash seized from criminals to Treasury: Ravaged communities miss out as half of dealers? assets are siphoned off by Westminster. Half of all funds seized from criminals in Scotland are being taken by the Treasury rather than invested in communities ravaged by their crimes. The admission, revealed as First Minister Jack McConnell announced a record level of seizures, has prompted anger among opposition MSPs and a commitment by the Executive to challenge the arrangement with Treasury officials. . .” Sunday Herald
“Crime Inc. Loses ?5m - But special taskforce fails to find Mr Bigs’ hidden fortune” Sunday Mail
“Dirty money law putting squeeze on criminals” Sunday Post
“Drug baron campaign branded a failure” Sunday Times
Press Release
“Payback time for criminals: A record amount of cash has been seized from criminals in Scotland through new powers of seizure introduced earlier this year. Fifty per cent of the assets recovered from these criminals is retained in Scotland for initiatives to tackle drugs, and, under a new Scottish government initiative, this money will now be allocated to improving communities that have been undermined by serious and organised crime. . .” Scot. Exec. (long release with statistics and summary of prominent cases).
See also - weblog entry 19.11.03: New powers to sieze trafficker’s assets approved in draft
Posted by MM
on Mon 24th Nov 2003
at 2:39 pm
Sentencing Asset recovery
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