From diamond to luxury cars: justice sells 300 objects seized or confiscated at auction
More than 300 lots of objects seized or confiscated in the context of criminal procedures were sold at auction Friday in Bercy.
"We are going to type the criminals in the portfolio," said Thursday, November 4, the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, by presenting more than 300 lots of objects of value seized or confiscated by justice, auction this Friday, from diamond to diamondLuxury car.Amount for a moment in a confiscated Lamborghini, parked before Bercy, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said to the press: "If someone has 150,000 euros, it is the starting setting, but I'Hope it will bring us more ".
Luxury cars, prestigious wines, master-horlogers watches, shoes, brand handbag...The 310 lots of objects seized or confiscated as part of criminal procedures were presented during an auction this Friday, November 5 in Bercy on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the management and recovery agency for assetsseized and confiscated (AGRASC) placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice.
ORS of a press conference at the Ministry of the Economy, Eric Dupond-Moretti hoped that "the confiscation" of goods will be extended and is not limited to "the fight against economic and financial delinquency or to organized crime"."This heritage sanction (...) must also become an instrument to combat everyday delinquency in order to ensure that crime no longer pays, that the offense no longer pays.In other words, we are going to type criminals in the wallet, "insisted Eric Dupond-Moretti insisted.
"I find it really great that offenders are penalized from a financial point of view.I like it a lot, "says an individual who came to attend the sale.
"Virtuous circle"
The 310 lots presented during this auction comes in particular from confiscations linked to money laundering or drug trafficking, according to the National Directorate of Tomination Interventions (DNID), coorganizing the sale."By entering them their criminal assets, you remove their interest in committing acts of delinquency.Luxury watches are, for example, a vector of money laundering, "said the director general of AGRASC Nicolas Bessone.
"It is a virtuous circle," commented the Keeper of the Seals in the face of a diamond exposed in a display, whose sale of the sale will partly allow a victim to compensate a victim.Eric Dupond-Moretti also praised a "paradigm change" with the signing of a decree coming into force on Thursday and "which will allow AGRASC to redistribute goods (confiscated real estate) to public utility associations (as) Charitable associations."The sum united by the sale of these goods, set at prices from 30 euros (a bicycle) to 150,000 (the Lamborghini), will be paid" to the state budget or even to competition funds, for example of struggleAgainst addiction to narcotics or the fight against pimping, "said Nicolas Bessone.
Dnid director Alain Coumeil claims that "nearly a thousand people" went indoors this Friday and "8,500 registered" online to participate in these auctions.
AGRASC has sold for 1.5 billion euros in property seized and confiscated since its creation in 2011.In March 2021, it opened antennas in Marseille and Lyon, which has since made it possible to pay the general state budget 28 million euros."With regard to these results", she will have two new branches in Lille and Rennes next spring, the Keeper of the Seals announced.
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