Welcome to the Assets Recovery Agency website

On Tuesday 1 April 2008 ARA merged with the Serious Organised Crime Agency. This site will not be updated after this time. Please visit www.soca.gov.uk for information on Asset Recovery related work.

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The Assets Recovery Agency was established to disrupt organised criminal enterprises through the recovery of criminal assets, and to promote the use of financial investigation as an integral part of criminal investigation.

On 16th January 2007, the Government introduced the Serious Crime Bill to Parliament setting out Government proposals to merge the operational elements of the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) with the Serious Organised Crime Agency(SOCA), and the Agency’s training and accreditation functions with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). It will also extend to certain prosecutors the power to launch civil recovery action under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. 

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