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Paul Evans: Director, Intervention ICAC Symposium: International Partnerships

Serious Organised Crime Agency16 December 2009

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SOCA- Role and Approach

SOCA’s task is to reduce the harm caused to

the UK by serious organised crime.

SOCA’s Strategic Priorities are:• Building Knowledge• Removing Criminal Assets• Increasing risk to Criminals• Working in Partnership• Building Capabilities

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Traditional Techniques

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Internationally

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Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

• Money laundering offences• Duty to submit SARS• Criminal confiscation regime• Civil confiscation• Cash seizure and forfeiture• Taxation Assessments• Establishment of ARA• Investigative tools

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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

• Information Gateways (S 32-35)• Financial Reporting Orders (S 76)• Disclosure Notice (S62)• Assistance by Offenders (S72)

Serious Crime Act 2007

• Serious Crime Prevention Orders (Part 1)

• Transfer Civil Recovery Provisions (Part 3 Chapter 2)

• Data Sharing in Fraud Prevention (Part 3 Chapter 1)

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Deploying new as well as traditional techniques

Understand markets and harm Non-traditional criminal disposal (money, tax, property…)

Target hardeningPreventionAlerts

Build a criminal case Put in jail / disrupt Lifetime managementNew Powers

Learn from others, private and publicpartnerships

Regulatory Powers Private sector actionMobilisation

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Criminal Assets

“SOCA strips business man of multi million pound lifestyle”

• Civil proceedings against Mark McKinney, businessman in County Armagh.

• Derived majority of assets through money laundering, fraud, illegal trading, income tax and VAT evasion

• Assets to a minimum value of £3million recovered include; helicopter, caravan, boat, luxury villa, prestige cars, residential and commercial property

• Case referred by PSNI, following a decade of inconclusive investigations by several agencies

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The Future: High Volumes

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