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Medicines, luxury cars, cows ... The extravagant management of criminal assets

2021-02-05T18:46:23.498Z


STORY - The Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets is surveying France to sell the products and instruments of crime. The sums are transferred to special funds or to the state budget.


Do you know how to sell swim bladders, a herd of 300 cows, unfinished jogging bottoms, luxury cars or watches, medicines and vines in Champagne at the same time?

You no, but the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets (Agrasc), yes.

In 2020, this public establishment, under the triple tutelage of the Ministries of Justice, the Interior and the Budget, will thus have sold 2,496 movable goods for the modest sum of 8.2 million euros and 94 real estate for 16, 5 million euros.

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For ten years, the agency has thrived an inventory that would have delighted Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian.

To the ten officials of its management pole returns this sometimes almost impossible mission to manage and sell the most improbable proceeds of crime, after seizure and confiscation, by mutual agreement or at auction.

Thus of this stock of 300 kg of swim bladders, in 2017, seized by the judicial authority of Cayenne during

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Source: lefigaro

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