A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of 57 landed properties valued at about ₦213.23 billion, ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured a Federal High Court order for the interim forfeiture of $150,000 ...

Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office said local police departments have received over $50,000 for projects from ...

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Law enforcement groups have long argued that civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, is a vital tool for stopping ...

Civil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement takes a person’s private property on the assumption that the property is connected to a crime. However, the government does not actually have to prove ...

Law enforcement agencies claim to fight crime when they seize and keep cash without securing a conviction. But new peer-reviewed research undercuts the narrative. The study, published in Criminal ...

Rep. Justin Amash, the nation’s sole Libertarian congressman, introduced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from using civil forfeiture, which lets law enforcement take cash ...