Emily Thornberry – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2014-03-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assets of criminal origin have been repatriated from the UK to jurisdictions overseas in each year since 2008-09.

Karen Bradley

The Serious and Organised Crime Strategy sets out how the Government intends to
improve the tackling of criminal finances both in the UK and overseas. This
includes developing asset sharing agreements with other countries in order to
improve international co-operation on asset recovery. Although no assets have
been repatriated to another country since 2008-09, there are a number of ongoing
investigations, particularly as part of the Arab Spring Asset Recovery
Taskforce, about which it is not possible to comment further at this stage.