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24/02/2014
Overseas Assets Recover To Be Priority For CPS
Specialist lawyers are to be sent overseas to work alongside foreign authorities to recover assets hidden by criminals.
Criminal asset recovery is being made a priority for the Crown Prosecution Service by director of public prosecutions for England and Wales Alison Saunders.
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Saunders said that it, "is really important is that we get the money back so that we can either give it back to victims - so we compensate victims for the crimes against them - or if there are no victims, that we deprive criminals of effectively what is their life blood, which is money.
"And it means they can't go on and put that money back into more crime."
(MH)
Criminal asset recovery is being made a priority for the Crown Prosecution Service by director of public prosecutions for England and Wales Alison Saunders.
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Saunders said that it, "is really important is that we get the money back so that we can either give it back to victims - so we compensate victims for the crimes against them - or if there are no victims, that we deprive criminals of effectively what is their life blood, which is money.
"And it means they can't go on and put that money back into more crime."
(MH)
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