Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Let us take it back to first principles. Let us say a human rights abuser is resident in another jurisdiction - it can be anywhere - and that human rights abuser is well chronicled and well documented and we would say that the burden of proof is met for the purpose of this consideration and that we have evidence that would arise in a prosecution, and that abuser has assets within the State of Ireland. Is there a difficulty in moving on those assets and would this Bill help us to do that?
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