CAB bring record court cases against crime bosses

A record number of new proceedings targeting the assets of suspected crime bosses were brought before the courts last year.

The 2017 annual report of the Criminal Assets Bureau shows that 28 new proceeds of crime cases came before the High Court.

The figure is more than twice the number of cases in the previous two years (13 in both 2016 and 2015) and treble that of 2013 (8).