The health and safety sledgehammer of asset seizures

The health and safety sledgehammer of asset seizures
Business owner Ron Salter. (Image: NZME)
Paul McBeth
Trust us; we know what we’re doing. That’s the message from the New Zealand Police, having successfully muscled in on health and safety territory with their increasingly expansive asset restraint and seizure powers after cutting a $4 million deal with sub-par business owner Ron Salter. The case was a novel one in that police were testing the boundaries of the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act, which grants them the power to freeze and seize assets of nefarious villains deemed to have profited from serious crime – bein...

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