13 Unlawful conduct: gross human rights abuses or violations
Criminal Finances Act 2017 (2017 c 22) | Legislation

Chapter 3
Civil Recovery

Meaning of “unlawful conduct": gross human rights abuses or violations

13  Unlawful conduct: gross human rights abuses or violations

(1)     Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (civil recovery of the proceeds etc of unlawful conduct) is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 241 (meaning of “unlawful conduct”), after subsection (2) insert—

“(2A)     Conduct which—

(a)     occurs in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom,

(b)     constitutes, or is connected with, the commission of a gross human rights abuse or violation (see section 241A), and

(c)     if it occurred in a part of the United Kingdom, would be an offence triable under the criminal law of that part on indictment only or either on indictment or summarily,

is also unlawful conduct.”

(3)     After that section insert—

“241A Gross human rights abuse or violation”

(1)     Conduct constitutes the commission of a gross human rights abuse or violation if each of the following three conditions is met.

(2)     The first condition is that—

(a)     the conduct constitutes the torture of a person who has sought—

(i)     to expose illegal activity carried out by

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