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
That is helpful. I am going to wrap up the discussion shortly because we have other issues to discuss. To elucidate that further, and I hope I do not complicate it further, if there is an individual who has clean money and dirty money, the clean money is accumulated through a legitimate business interest and the dirty money is accumulated through criminal activity or certain activity in another jurisdiction which has involved human rights abuses. As I understand it, our objective in this Bill is to render that dirty money available to CAB and other agencies to be able to move on it. There is a difficulty in the sense that the distinction must be made between how the money has been generated and whether it is the clean or dirty money. Is that the issue?
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