Proceeds of Crime Legislation

In reply to the Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO ().5 June 2024).

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector): I am advised:

As the matter of DPP v Dansiethat the honourable member is referring to is currently before the Supreme Court, it would not be appropriate to comment on the individual circumstances of this case nor to presume an outcome.

The Director of Public Prosecutions does possess a discretion to proceed or not proceed in a criminal assets confiscations proceeding. This depends on the individual circumstances of a confiscations matter, whether or not the respondent or offender in such a matter is a prescribed drug offender, and whether or not there is a public interest in the director proceeding to making a forfeiture application in the particular facts of a criminal assets confiscations proceeding.