Links to confiscation
Taken to the cleaners - What is important to understand is that it doesn’t matter if the financial investigator is satisfied that the assets can all be seen to have come from legitimate means – the order will still be made for that amount. There is no need to prove that any of it is dirty money.
Now the family faces ruin - Little could he know that this act of kindness would lead to a mental health patient faced with losing her home – the sole point of security in her life, the existence of which meant she could lead a relatively independent and self-sufficient life. Because when the financial investigator found he had been making contributions to the house, the CPS said it was part of his assets and therefore they wanted it – threatening the security of one of society’s most vulnerable individuals.