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 $603,014.30 in Australian currency (the property) and any interest earned thereon, found and subsequently seized by officers of the New South Wales Police Force (NSWPF) on 19 June 2024 following a search of a white Mercedes Sprinter vehicle bearing Victorian registration CJN427, on the Hume Highway, Holbrook,
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 as a result of a search on 19 June 2024, of a white Mercedes Sprinter vehicle bearing Victorian registration CJN427, on the Hume Highway, Holbrook. The occupant of the vehicle did not claim ownership of the property and has been charged with deal in property suspected proceeds of crime. 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
A2515534
Sydney 2000
