DRUG Enforcement Commission (DEC) Director General Nason Banda says it is wrong to view the recovery of assets as letting criminals off the hook as the world is moving towards asset recovery to cripple criminal gangs. In an interview, Banda said asset recovery was an international practice and DEC had recently seized a lot of money which it had forfeited to the state. “There’s this notion that recovering assets is like letting criminals off the hook. It’s a wrong notion all together. The world now is moving towards asset recovery to cripple the criminal gangs. When you get their money, we’ve actually even seized a lot of money. The point is the world now is moving towards asset recovery as...

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