A house in Brittas Bay where Michael Lynn has been living is among the assets under investigation. Photograph: Collins Courts
Under the Criminal Justice Act 1994, a court can order that a convicted person pay such sums as the court thinks fit because the convicted person has been deemed to have benefited from the offence. As part of the process, the court may order that the convicted person respond to accusations about and give reasons for denying that the assets are not linked to their crime.
Blue Lights review: Gripping portrait of Belfast is a rare spark in the moribund world of Irish crime television When the possible confiscation application came before the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday barrister Joe Mulrean for the DPP said the court can sanction an inquiry into assets under a provision of the Criminal Justice Act 1994 in circumstances where it appears to the DPP that a person may have benefited from a crime they committed or where the assets may be connected to the offence.
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