(Barbados Nation) Barbados is preparing to tighten the noose on criminals who are accumulating significant wealth from their unlawful deeds.
That’s because the island is joining forces with the United States Government to introduce civil recovery legislation that would help authorities confiscate money and property obtained from criminal activities.
And while local law enforcers have already started confiscating the property of drug traffickers in particular, the island was now ready to take the dramatic step of seeking confiscations without criminal convictions.
This was revealed by Nicola Suter, the United States Embassy’s financial crimes advisor, who told the WEEKEND NATION that the legislation had already been introduced in Britain, the United States, Australia and the New Zealand with great success.
Suter said the civil route was now a more feasible way of tackling the problem of organized crime because criminals had become very sophisticated and it was increasingly difficult to “catch them through conventional means”.
