Sentences with phrase «assist organised crime»

Officials from the Home Office insist this measure isn't going to target those who unwittingly assist organised crime and are thereby guilty of the new offence of «participation».

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Jamieson wants to provide heroin - assisted treatment to users who have failed to respond to other forms of treatment, in order to deprive organised crime of funds and to break the cycle of acquisitive crime that can often go hand in hand with addiction.

Raj Chada, partner at Hodge Jones & Allen LLP, comments: «This case concerns the circumstances in which sentences passed on assisting offenders should be referred back to the sentencing court under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), s 74.

Criminals rely on the services of legal professionals to assist them — often unknowingly — in laundering the proceeds of serious and organised crime, which is estimated to cost # 24 billion to the UK economy each year.