Police back off $11m proceeds-of-crime case – but it’ll cost
Seen as a test case, the police had frozen the assets and bank accounts of a family-owned business for being ‘fundamentally non-compliant’ with health and safety, an action normally reserved for gangs and drug dealers.
An 11th-hour negotiated settlement between the Commissioner of Police and Salters Cartage’s legal team, after a five-year legal process, has staved off what would have been a costly seven-week trial.
The hearing, due to commence on Tuesday, was suspended briefly by Justice Mathew Downs while the
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