Criminal Assets Recovery Act 1990 (section 21C)
ASSETS FORFEITURE NOTICE
In accordance with section 21C of the Criminal Assets Recovery Act 1990 (the Act), the New South Wales Crime Commission (the Commission) hereby issues a notice of intention to forfeit (assets forfeiture notice) the following property,
Cash in the amount of $626,570 in Australian currency (the property) and any interest accumulated thereon, found and subsequently seized by New South Wales Police Force (NSWPF) officers on 29 April 2023 during a search of a Mercedes Benz utility vehicle with New South Wales registration EBY11B, on the Hume Highway at Coolac,
to the Crown.
This assets forfeiture notice is issued on the following grounds:
1. The property is held by the NSWPF after it was seized on 29 April 2023 during a search of a Mercedes Benz utility vehicle with NSW registration EBY11B, on the Hume Highway, Coolac. On that day, the persons in possession of the property, being the driver and the passenger in the vehicle, declined to be interviewed regarding the property. The property is held by the NSWPF pursuant to the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002.
2. The Commission is reasonably satisfied the property is an interest in property:
a. of a person suspected of engaging in serious crime related activity; and/or
b. suspected of being serious crime derived property because of serious crime related activity;
and/or
c. suspected of being an available interest relating to serious crime use property,
within the meaning of the Act.
Pursuant to section 21A of the Act, a dispute claim in relation to this assets forfeiture notice may be made by 19 March 2025 and pursuant to section 21G of the Act, MUST:
1. be made in writing to the Commission by post to 453-463 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW or by e-mail
to confiscations@crimecommission.nsw.gov.au; and
2. include the following information:
(a) the name, date of birth and address of the person making the claim (the claimant),
(b) the basis of the claim, including the following and evidence, if any, supporting the
following—
(i) a description of the claimant’s interest in the property,
(ii) how the interest in the property was acquired,
(iii) why the interest in the property is not illegally acquired property,
(c) a statutory declaration supporting the information in the claim.
Unless a dispute claim is made to the Commission, this assets forfeiture notice takes effect immediately after 19 March 2025.
Assistant Commissioner
New South Wales Crime Commission
6 January 2025
A2510925
Sydney 2000
