Section of organised crime law fails constitutional test

Three judges of the High Court have declared the wide-reaching definition of “proceeds of unlawful activity” in the Prevention of Organised Crime Act as unconstitutional, because it includes property unconnected to crime but which was mixed with the actual proceeds of crime.

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