Account Freezing & Forfeiture Orders in 2021 & 2022

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.23.033561

I note you seek access to the following information:

1. The number of Account Freezing Orders issued from January to December 2022 (or for the last full calendar year available) and how much these amounted to.
2. The number of Account Freezing Orders issued from January to December 2021, and how much these amounted to.
3. The number of Account Forfeiture Orders issued January to December 2022 (or for the last full calendar year available) and how much these amounted to.
4. The number of Account Forfeiture Orders issued January to December 2021, and how much these amounted to.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Account Freezing Orders
Years	Volume	Estimated Amount
2021	215	£27,242,175.86
2022	162	£16,796,414.76

 

Forfeiture Orders
Years	Volume	Value
2021	421	£19,799,142.54
2022	370	£35,648,531.61

The Forfeiture Order figures relate to all POCA Forfeitures in the requested time frame (Seized Cash and Account Freezing Orders). The Joint Asset Recovery Database cannot separate Forfeiture Orders into Seizure types. Each case would have to be integrated separately to see what the initial seizure was.

The Met Figures are produced per Financial Year and published figures would be based on the reports run at the end of each quarter. The above will include cases added/changed after the published figures were produced.