7/10/2023 0 Comments Receipts 2021 march![]() ![]() £354 million was recovered in total from Confiscation Order, Forfeiture Order and Civil Recovery Order receipts in the financial year 2021 to 2022. The main changes and additions to the Bulletin are presented in Annex A. It should be noted that this release does include orders under these Acts.ĭata presented on Unexplained Wealth Orders ( UWOs) was provided by the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) in March 2022 for the financial year ending March 2022. There is additional legislation to POCA which can be used for the detaining and seizure of criminal assets such as the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Statistical information on this is outlined in the Methodology and Data Quality Report and Background Quality Report. Therefore, any direct comparisons of changes in asset recovery performance should not be made between the latest and previous releases of the Asset Recovery Annual Statistical Bulletin. ![]() Figures included in the latest statistical release supersede previous officially reported figures. It should be noted there will be variations in the data recorded for each financial year due to revisions made in retrospection of the live administrative Joint Asset Recovery Database ( JARD) system. ![]() This release includes data covering the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, a period when COVID restrictions had an impact across the entire law enforcement, criminal justice, and asset recovery systems, adversely impacting on investigation, prosecution and conviction capacity and capability. This release does not include data covering Scotland. This release refers to data covering the financial years from 2016 to 2017 until 2021 to 2022, which is the latest period, for the jurisdictions of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and those which have no recorded jurisdiction. Links to statistics published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on the collection of Civil Recovery and Taxation can be found in the Methodology and Data Quality Report. ![]() Further information on accounting for inflation can be found in the Methodology and Data Quality Report. The statistics presented in the above sections are presented as nominal values i.e., not adjusted for inflation and any comparisons to previous years do not account for inflation. It also includes statistics on: (a) the value and volume of proceeds of crime by the associated criminal offence types, (b) the value of compensation paid to victims, (c) the use of funds received by POCA Agencies through the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme ( ARIS), (d) the ARIS Allocations distributed to these agencies, and (e) statistics on International Asset Recovery. This release contains Official Statistics on the value and volume of proceeds of crime restrained, seized, frozen and subsequently recovered through Criminal Confiscations, Civil Forfeitures and Civil Recovery powers. Links to further information on POCA can be found in the Background Information Note. POCA can be applied through the following powers: Criminal Confiscation, Civil Forfeiture, Civil Recovery and Taxation. It is also used to deprive criminals of their money or other property connected to criminal activity. The Proceeds of Crime Act ( POCA) 2002 provides the statutory framework used to enable the investigation and prosecution of crimes relating to benefit from criminal conduct or crimes relating to property obtained through unlawful conduct or which is intended to be used in unlawful conduct. ![]()
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