As a result of this perceived injustice, UK government has broaden the ambit of asset recovery from only focus on drug cases to white collar crime more generally, with an iterative process of legislative change. The enactment of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) further allows the law enforcer to confiscating the assets of crime. It has raised a controversial issue where the asset confiscation no longer requires a criminal conviction. Part V of POCA facilitates asset confiscation to be taken under a civil basis, which means the burden of proof will be genuinely lower.
