Asked by: Lord Mendelsohn (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask His Majesty's Government when the Attorney General last received a briefing concerning suspected Rwandan war criminals living in England by the Crown Prosecution Service or the police.
Answered by Lord Stewart of Dirleton - Advocate General for Scotland
The Attorney General was last briefed on this matter by the Crown Prosecution Service on 30 April 2024.
Asked by: Lord Mendelsohn (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what level of engagement they have had with the private sector in pursuit of the £1.6 billion of illegal assets calculated by the National Audit Office to be subject to confiscation orders but which will evade recovery.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie
In 2014 the Home Office established the Serious and Organised Crime Financial Sector Forum, an initiative to bring together Government, law enforcement agencies, regulators and the financial sector in a public-private partnership to tackle crime. Under its auspices, the National Crime Agency has trialled sharing data on uncollected confiscation orders with the banks, and leads the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT), which brings together banks and law enforcement agencies to share information to tackle money laundering.
Work is continuing with the Financial Sector Forum to explore effective ways of sharing data between private sector entities.
Asked by: Lord Mendelsohn (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made, in the light of the recent Panama papers scandal, of how many of the illegal assets subject to confiscation orders they will now be able to claim.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie
On 10 April 2016 the Prime Minister announced a new cross-agency taskforce to obtain, analyse and take action on the information that has been made available from Mossack Fonseca and to take rapid action on any form of illegality that emerges.
A number of investigations are underway and the taskforce, which is accountable to the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will report on its progress later this year.