Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998

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121 of 1998

The Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 intends:

to introduce measures to combat organised crime, money laundering and criminal gang activities;
to prohibit certain activities relating to racketeering activities;
to provide for the prohibition of money laundering and for an obligation to report certain information;
to criminalise certiin activities associated with gangs;
to provide for the recovery of the proceeds of unlawful activity;
for the civil forfeiture of criminal assets that have been used to commit an offence or assets that are the proceeds of unlawful activity;
to provide for the establishment of a Criminal Assets Recovery Account;
to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992;
to amend the International Co-operation in Criminal Matters Act, 1996;
to repeal the Proceeds of Crime Act, 1996;
to incorporate the provisions contiined in the Proceeds of Crime Act, 1996; and
to provide for matters connected therewith.

21 January 1999 (Gazette 19697 of 21 January 1999)

The Southern African Legal Information Institute provides a complete amended Act at https://www.saflii.org/za/legis/consol_act/pooca1998301/ [Updated to 1 June 2016]

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