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Criminal Finances Bill

Proceeding contribution from Ben Wallace (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 25 October 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Finances Bill.

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. The Bill does extend some of the offences and powers it contains to cover an extra-territorial extent, which will go a considerable way to getting to the bottom of money laundering, whether that be carried out here or elsewhere around the world. It also goes some way to dealing with people who evade tax overseas. Just because they are not evading our tax but are robbing another country, it does not mean that we would not still like to take action against those individuals. The Bill goes some way on that.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
616 c194 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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