Tougher measures for drug dealers – BBC News
“Suspected drug dealers’ assets could be seized on arrest, rather than charge, under ministers’ new drugs strategy.”
BBC News, 27th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: proceeds of crime
Drug dealers to have assets seized on arrest – Daily Telegraph
“Police will be able to seize high-value assets from suspected drug dealers as soon as they are arrested under plans to be unveiled this week by Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Maye v Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland – Times Law Reports
Maye v Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland
House of Lords
“An interest in an unadministered intestate estate and an action for damages for false im-prisonment were both ‘things in action’ and therefore ‘property’ when determining the amount that might be realised for the purpose of a confiscation order.”
The Times, 11th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Maye v Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland – WLR Daily
Maye v Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland [2008] UKHL 9; [2008] WLR (D) 33
“The appellant’s interest in his parents’ unadministered estates and an action by him for damages for false imprisonment were ‘things in action’ and so ‘property’ within the definition in art 3(1) of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Too much bling costs suspected drug dealer £650,000 in assets – The Guardian
“A suspected drugs trafficker who claimed that an ice cream van and other small businesses had earned him three homes and a fleet of luxury cars has become one of the biggest victims of criminal assets recovery law.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court orders jailed financier to surrender £41m – The Times
“Gerald Smith, a doctor-turned-financier who is serving eight years in prison for defrauding an internet business, was ordered to surrender £41 million yesterday in the largest confiscation order in British criminal proceedings.”
The Times, 14th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Crime assets agency ‘ill-planned’ – BBC News
“The setting up of a government agency to seize criminals’ wealth was ill-planned and unrealistic, an influential group of MPs has said.”
BBC News, 11th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Impoverished’ fraudster accused of hiding £33m – The Times
“Britain’s worst tax fraudster is using ‘smoke and mirrors’ to avoid paying back his illegally-gained fortune, a court heard yesterday.”
The Times, 19th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Director of Assets Recovery Agency v Szepietowski and Others (No 2) – Times Law Reports
Proving assets obtained by unlawful conduct
Director of Assets Recovery Agency v Szepietowski and Others (No 2)
Court of Appeal
“On an application for an interim receiving order, the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency had to show that a criminal offence was committed and the property to be recovered was obtained by it or in return for it. It was not necessary to prove that a particular person committed a particular offence on a particular day.”
The Times, 21st August 2007
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Director of Assets Recovery Agency v. Szepietowski and others – WLR Daily
Director of Assets Recovery Agency v. Szepietowski and others
“On an application for an interim receiving order under s 246 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency had to establish a good arguable case that the property to be recovered or other property it represented had been obtained by unlawful conduct. It was sufficient to show that a criminal offence had been committed and the property had been obtained by it or in return for it. It was not necessary to prove that a particular person committed a particular offence on a particular day.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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R (El-Kurd) v. Sakavickas and another – WLR Daily
R (El-Kurd) v. Sakavickas and another; R v. Rana Singh [2007] EWCA Crim 1888
“Where a judge had misdirected a jury owing to a defect in the indictment and the misdirection went to the heart of the issue between the defendant and the Crown, the conviction would be unsafe even if the indictment could have been amended so that the facts relied on would amount to the offence charged, and even where the case against the defendant was very strong.”
WLR Daily, 26th July 2007
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Law Lords slam crime agency for freezing UMBS payments – The Independent
“The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), the UK equivalent of the FBI, has been strongly criticised by Law Lords [sic] in the Court of Appeal for its “unlawful” action in freezing payments to a company that the organisation believed may have been involved in a VAT fraud.”
The Independent, 27th May 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
R (UMBS Online Ltd.) v. Serious Organised Crime Agency and another – WLR Daily
R (UMBS Online Ltd.) v. Serious Organised Crime Agency and another
“The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) was a powerful statutory body whose decisions could imperil private and business banking activity on no more than a reported suspicion of money-laundering. However it should not withhold consent to a bank to allow it to operate a customer’s account under s 335 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 without good reason. It had an obligation to keep matters under review and its refusal of a bank customer’s request to revisit the matter was unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 2nd May 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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