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Damien Edgar

Questions over lack of use of unexplained wealth orders at Policing Board meeting

It remains unclear what financial threshold needs to be cleared in order for unexplained wealth order powers to be used in Northern Ireland.

The power allows police to seize property where there is reasonable grounds to suspect that a person's known income would not be enough to allow them to obtain it.

It was introduced in Northern Ireland in June last year, having already been in force in other parts of the UK, but the powers have yet to be used locally.

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