FRAUD AND PROCEEDS OF CRIME

Fraud, proceeds of crime and recovery of criminal property are an everyday feature of criminal practice... The legislature is determined to prevent financial crime and recover the proceeds through the criminal confiscation regime and civil recovery. It is not an easy area for the practitioner or the defendant... Before the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 there were the Drugs Trafficking Act 1994 and the subsequently amended Criminal Justice Act 1988 aimed originally at drug trafficking and then the general application with regard to criminal proceeds of all kinds The next stage was the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and its enhanced confiscation regime, recovery of "criminal property" and a myriad of money laundering and conversion offences.

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