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Last week Jack Straw, the home secretary, spelled out his plans to allow the seizure of assets belonging to people suspected, but not actually convicted, of a criminal offence.
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The past 12 months have brought new laws prescribing tougher sentences for traffickers, and the seizure of their assets.
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On May 14th, a Colombian court ordered the seizure of all assets of ODIN including its bank accounts.
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Organised criminals will face not just the pre-emptive seizure of their assets, but will be forced to cooperate with investigations and will face trial without jury where there is any suggestion of intimidation of jurors.
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Criminal lawyers are looking at the rights of suspects in police custody to legal advice, the use of closed-circuit cameras, the seizure of criminal assets and police entrapment procedures, to name but a few areas where they think that existing practice may conflict with the convention.
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On the U.S. side of the border, more funding will support "prosecutor-led, intelligence-based task forces" that bring together the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to dismantle drug cartels through investigation and extradition and the seizure and forfeiture of assets, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden said.
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What's worse, many firms just don't pay, especially where poor bankruptcy laws and corruptible courts prevent the seizure of debtors' assets.
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And neither the seizure nor the dispensation of assets is subject to judicial review.
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The anti-mafia agency said in a statement it was the biggest ever seizure of mafia-linked assets.
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Summary justice through on-the-spot fines, seizure of drug dealers' assets, closure of pubs, clubs and houses that are the centre of drug use or disorder, naming and shaming of persistent ASB offenders, interim ASBO's, will be rolled out.
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