The Government is committed to fighting human trafficking. Over £5.5 million has been recovered from those convicted of human trafficking offences in the last five years. Full available details are shown in the following table.
A human trafficker may, as an alternative, be charged and prosecuted for a different offence, such as prostitution or money laundering, which could incur a confiscation order. But this would not be recorded as a trafficking offence.<\/p>
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he UK is party to a number of multilateral international agreements that
contain asset recovery and asset sharing provisions. These include the Council
of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the
Proceeds from Crime, the UN Convention Against Corruption and the UN Convention
Against Transnational Organised Crime. The UK does not require a formal
international agreement to be able to cooperate with another country in respect
of freezing, confiscating and sharing or repatriating the proceeds of crime but
does have 37 bilateral mutual legal assistance agreements with other countries
including such provisions. These are -<\/p>
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1. Algeria
2. Antigua and Barbuda
3. Argentina
4. Australia
5. Bahamas
6. Bahrain
7. Barbados
8. Brazil
9. Canada
10. Chile
11. Colombia
12. Ecuador
13. Grenada
14. Guyana
15. Hong Kong SAR
16. India
17. Ireland
18. Italy
19. Jordan
20. Libya
21. Malaysia
22. Mexico
23. Netherlands
24. Nigeria
25. Panama
26. Paraguay
27. Philippines
28. Romania
29. Saudi Arabia
30. Spain
31. Sweden
32. Thailand
33. UAE
34. Ukraine
35. Uruguay
36. USA
37. Vietnam<\/p>
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The agreements with Jordan and Malaysia have been concluded since 2010.
There are a further six bilateral agreements limited to the issue of asset
sharing. These are -<\/p>
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1. Canada
2. Jersey
3. Hong Kong SAR
4. Ireland
5. Jamaica
6. Netherlands
These were all concluded prior to 2010.<\/p>
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It is the usual policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence, content or status of any individual requests to repatriate assets.<\/p>
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It is the usual policy to neither to confirm nor deny the existence, content or status of any individual requests to repatriate assets.<\/p>
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The Serious and Organised Crime Strategy sets out how the Government intends to
improve the tackling of criminal finances both in the UK and overseas. This
includes developing asset sharing agreements with other countries in order to
improve international co-operation on asset recovery. Although no assets have
been repatriated to another country since 2008-09, there are a number of ongoing
investigations, particularly as part of the Arab Spring Asset Recovery
Taskforce, about which it is not possible to comment further at this stage.<\/p>
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