20 Nov 2020
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE v JAMES [2020] NZHC 3075
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 3075
- Court
- High Court
On the balance of probabilities the respondent engaged in manufacture and supply of methamphetamine; the $400,000 cash found with manufacturing equipment and the payments and cash-funded renovations increasing equity in 158B Sunset Road were derived from that significant criminal activity; both the cash and Sunset Road are therefore tainted property and an assets forfeiture order must be made vesting those interests in the Crown; a profit forfeiture order was unnecessary because the assets forfeited exceed the claimed unlawful benefit.