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    "id": 1369752,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1369752/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "statement confirming what impact these regulations have and what the committee has considered to be any further information required by the House to pass the regulations... It is important to note that the Asset Recovery Unit or the Asset Recovery Agency is the agency tasked under POCAMLA, 2009, to deal with the asset recovery. There have been murmurs from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) that this agency encroaches on their mandate, but we have constantly said that the EACC deals with assets of corruption while the Asset Recovery Agency deals with assets recovered from anti-money laundering and proceeds of other crime. While corruption is one of those crimes, there are other crimes from which assets can be recovered and therefore that does not fall within the mandate of the EACC. As we stand today, the Asset Recovery Unit wishes to detach itself from the office of the Attorney-General so that it is able to exercise its mandate as an independent unit. That is welcome and the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC) is assisting them to make that detachment. Otherwise, these are regulations that will assist them a lot in doing their duties under the law, which is POCAMLA, 2009. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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