Richard Miller wrote:
> In message <6es47cF8m5r9U1@mid.individual.net>, Gaz
> writes
>>
>> I cant see a fair reason for confiscating the money, prostitution is
>> not illegal. Make sure the individual is prosecuted to the fulle
>> extent of the law for tax evasion however.
>
> As an illegal immigrant, he had no legal right to work in this
> country, and therefore any earnings were unlawfully earnt.
>
> I still think it is a borderline case though. It is rather hard to
> shoehorn this into the definition of "proceeds of crime".
He could easily have brought a realisable asset into the country, and sold
it. Perfectly legal. It is being assumed here that the money found in his
possession is actually his earnings, in the absence of an admission or
evidence to the contrary.
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