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

Photo of James LawlessJames 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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