Reuse Confiscated Mafia Assets for Social Purposes, Say MEPs

BRUSSELS, Belgium (November 29, 2012) -- Confiscated mafia assets should be re-used for social purposes, said members of the Special Committee on Organised Crime at Wednesday's public hearing on money laundering.

“To give assets confiscated from mafias back to society has a strong symbolic value”, said Salvatore Iacolino (EPP, IT), who drafted the committee's final report. Provisions for reusing these assets for social purposes should be included in the proposed EU directive on confiscation, to be voted by the Civil Liberties Committee on 17-18 December, the committee agreed..................

 

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