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NO. 12 OF 2000


exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.

(2) Any police officer may, without warrant, arrest a person if the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person was a person referred to in subsection (1).

(3) A person who has been arrested shall be returned to custody in accordance with the direction.

Division 5—Enforcement of Foreign Confiscation Order, etc.

Requests for enforcement of foreign confiscation order

29.—(1) The appropriate authority of a prescribed foreign country may request the Attorney-General to assist in—

(a) the enforcement and satisfaction of a foreign confiscation order, made in any judicial proceedings instituted in that country, against property that is reasonably believed to be located in Singapore; or
(b) where a foreign confiscation order may be made in judicial proceedings which have been or are to be instituted in that country, the restraining of dealing in any property that is reasonably believed to be located in Singapore and against which the order may be enforced or which may be available to satisfy the order.

(2) On receipt of a request referred to in subsection (1), the Attorney-General may—

(a) in the case of subsection (1) (a), act or authorise the taking of action under section 30 and the provisions of the First Schedule; or
(b) in the case of subsection (1) (b), act or authorise the taking of action under the provisions of the First Schedule,

and in that event the provisions of the First Schedule shall apply accordingly.

(3) For the purposes of this section and the provisions of the First Schedule, judicial proceedings that are criminal proceedings are instituted in a prescribed foreign country when a person is produced and charged in court with a foreign offence.