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The Anti-Narcotics Force (Urdu: انسدادِ منشیات فورس, romanized: insidād-e-munaśśiyāt fors, reporting name: ANF) is a federal executive bureau and a paramilitary force of the Government of Pakistan, tasked with combating the narcotics smuggling and use within Pakistan.
Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities. In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial obligation . It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instruments of crime.
Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law. [1]
The new law raises the standard of evidence for seizures, imposes stricter deadlines on law enforcement and requires the filing of affidavits of probable cause before forfeiture proceedings begin.
New Mexico, for example, passed laws to end civil forfeiture, redirect all criminal forfeiture proceeds to the state’s general fund and place restrictions on the federal forfeiture equitable ...
The Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act 1988 (Malay: Akta Dadah Berbahaya (Perlucuthakan Harta) 1988), is a Malaysian laws which enacted to make provisions for offences in relation to property, and for the seizure and forfeiture of property, connected with activity related to offences under this Act, the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, or any foreign law corresponding to these Acts or to ...
Senate Bill 458 increases the steps needed to initiate the asset seizure process and requires clear and convincing evidence, rather than a preponderance of evidence, to move forward.
Sometimes it can mean a threat to seize property as well as the act of seizure itself. [2] Civil forfeiture is not considered to be an example of a criminal justice financial obligation . Proponents see civil forfeiture as a powerful tool to thwart criminal organizations involved in the illegal drug trade , since it allows authorities to seize ...