If the government suspects that property has been used in the commission of a crime, it files an action against the property itself.
Under current law, the federal government can confiscate any property that it suspects of being used in the commission of a crime, even if the owner turns out to be completely innocent.
Earlier this month, the government released a report from the country's crime commission containing allegations of "widespread" doping across a range of sports, but mainly Australian Rules Football and rugby league.
But Eugene Fiddell, a prominent military legal expert, said the conspiracy charge is not a war crime and is outside the jurisdiction of a military commission.
"He didn't pull back at all and end up with a weak bill, " said Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens' Crime Commission, a nonprofit criminal-justice policy group.
For example, in a standard phishing operation, an organized crime group might commission the creation of a scam web page and contact a secondary broker to get a list of thousands of email addresses.
However, he told relatives how the sister of one of the victims was not convinced that Megrahi had committed the crime and how a four-judge commission from the Organisation of African Unity has criticised the conviction.
On Friday, India's cabinet approved most of the recommendations of a commission set up to review sex crime laws after the case came to light.
Such tactics have been familiar in the US ever since the Chicago Crime Commission published a "public enemy" list in 1930 of Al Capone and other hoodlums.
On Thursday, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) published the findings of a year-long investigation that claimed the use of banned substances such as growth stimulants was "widespread" among professional athletes across a range of sports there.
Incidentally, one of Mr Grayling's first acts in his new post was to commission a report on current knife crime laws - perhaps the fruits of that report may appear when the bill moves over to the Commons.
Two things distinguished this, the longest-running Royal Commission in Australian history, from a succession of earlier inquiries into crime and corruption: modern technology, coupled with the tenacity of the man who presided over the commission.
Mr. Lott is a former chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission and the author of "More Guns, Less Crime" (University of Chicago Press, third edition, 2010).
In a separate statement also aimed at improving consumer confidence, the Commission said it was looking at ways of fighting computer crime following the damage caused by Thursday's Love Bug virus.
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