Yet Oppenheim has faith in management, suggesting Chief Executive Ara Hovnanian has a good nose for making acquisitions among the privately held home builders that still comprise 70% of the industry.

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For the ARA to succeed in a civil court, it has to prove that assets are "more likely than not" the proceeds of crime, while to secure a criminal conviction, the burden of proof is "beyond reasonable doubt".

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But of the cases completed since the POCA, some show gaping holes between the amount an individual benefited from crime and the value of what is taken from them, which could have made a difference to the ARA's figures.

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Professor Ara Darzi, who will be making a presentation later, is one of the world's leading surgeons - the man who pioneered keyhole and robotic surgery.

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The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, based in Germany, ruled that the ARA Libertad had immunity because it was a military vessel.

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Let me tell you something about the ARA. It was, first of all, an advertising construct, a fiction created by the oil and lodging industries in the early 20th century to coax Americans out on the road in their flivvers and Packards.

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