CIVIL FORFEITURE BILL

PART V of the Bill would provide for Unexplained Wealth Orders and contains clauses 58 to 67.

Clause 58 of the Bill would empower the FIU, the Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, the Registrar General, the Commissioner of Valuations, a customs officer or a police officer attached to the branch of the Police Service responsible for financial investigations to apply to the High Court for a Preliminary Unexplained Wealth Order, where there is a reasonable suspicion that the total wealth of the respondent exceeds the value of his lawfully obtained wealth and any property is owned by the respondent or is under his effective control, to apply to the High Court and require a person to file a declaration and answer questions in relation to his assets. The clause goes on to set out what must be contained in an affidavit accompanying the application, and provides that it may be made ex parte

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