Tuesday, October 30, 2018

UK Begins Confiscating Wealth Without Criminal Charges

In January we alerted you to a new power of British law enforcement: "Unexplained Wealth Orders" allow the United Kingdom to confiscate money and property, without charging the target with a crime.

Just this month, the UK used the first two Unexplained Wealth Orders.

Authorities have demanded that a woman living in London explain where she got the money to purchase her £11.5 million and £10.5 million homes.

If she cannot prove the money was acquired legally, the properties will be confiscated.

If the UK has evidence that the money came from criminal activity, then they should present that evidence.

British authorities are either too lazy to bother, or simply don't have concrete evidence that the money for the homes was acquired illegally.

Successfully confiscating the wealth of this woman will only embolden authorities to be even more brazen in confiscating wealth from the innocent.


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-28/uk-begins-confiscating-wealth-without-criminal-charges

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