NCA secures a £20-21M settlement from Chinese national, seizing dinosaur fossils, luxury apartments, and Chinese artworks under an Unexplained Wealth Order, showing POCA can target even exotic assets

The settlement included three rare dinosaur fossils (two Allosaurus skeletons and one Stegosaurus), nine luxury apartments in London, and 11 Chinese artworks. This case underscores the NCA’s growing ability to target not just traditional assets like cash and property, but also high-value and unusual assets, demonstrating the flexibility of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in tackling unexplained wealth and recovering illicitly obtained assets…