Proceeds of Crime in UK Law
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Taxing the Proceeds of Crime
Organised crime groups, in particular drug traffickers, generate considerable amounts of money from their criminal activities. Over the last two decades jurisdictions around the world have therefor...
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Knowledge Management in the Proceeds of Crime Community
The title of this paper immediately raises a number of issues. Is there such an entity as ‘the proceeds of crime community’? If such an entity exists, can it be ‘managed’? What role does knowledge ...
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Tax Evasion: Update on the Proceeds of Crime Debate
This paper considers the argument that the financial benefit (or ‘pecuniary advantage’) derived from tax evasion does not represent the proceeds of crime for the purposes of the money‐laundering le...
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Tracing and confiscating the proceeds of crime
Discusses the prosecution of solicitor Jonathan Duff for failing to disclose his suspicions of money laundering by two clients; he was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Outlines the police’s st...
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Proceeds of crime training: bringing it up to date
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the limitations of training provided to accredited financial investigators, police officers generally, the Crown Prosecution Service and the judic...
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An Evolving Series of Proceeds of Crime Models
Over the last two decades in particular, national legislatures have passed legislation aimed at ensuring that criminals do not profit from crime. This has been in response to the rise of organised ...
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Tracing, freezing and confiscating the proceeds of crime in Cyprus
Purpose: As a dynamic business and financial centre, the Republic of Cyprus is called upon to protect its economy and society from money laundering and criminal infiltration. To address these risks...
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Canada’s laws on money laundering and proceeds of crime: the international context
Begins with the Canadian Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act 1991, which was amended after 2001 into the Proceedings of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorism Financing Act. Looks at developme...
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New Frontiers of Criminal Liability: Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime
The salience of money laundering as a social and economic issue merits some modest scepticism. First, most crime is and will remain for the foreseeable future local and ill‐organised. The only conn...
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Recovering the proceeds of crime from the correspondent account of a foreign bank
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the issues about the recovery of the proceeds of crime, with emphasis on the USA situation. Design/methodology/approach: The paper first sets forth the rational...
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