Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep...
by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:02PM
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If you target the very wealthy, it's a very tiny burden to make them do paperwork to explain the origin of their money. In a situation like that, you can achieve due process without presumption of innocence.
Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep...
by Phrodo_00 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:23PM
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This can be used for values over £50000, though.
Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep...
by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:57PM
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That's probably not a great threshold, but for now I'm more worried about where it has been used than where it could theoretically be used.
Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep...
by brewdad on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:13PM
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The UK doesn't have a 5th Amendment.
Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep...
by Phrodo_00 on Friday July 29, 2022 @08:20PM
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Yeah, because they don't really have an actual consolidated constitution, but the presumption of innocence is one of the principles of English Common Law (see Woolmington v DPP), as well as being one of the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
They just sneak past it by not actually sentencing you of a crime.
I'm ok with having large amounts of cash with no obvious legitimate source triggering an investigation, but that's not what's happening.