Jamaica has enacted laws allowing for assets to seized upon application by a foreign government. Property that can be forfeited under the act includes 'money and all other property, real or personal, including things in action and other intangible or incorporeal property. The pertinent legislation contains no apparent bar to the seizure of legitimate businesses used to launder drug money. The office was recently expanded, to facilitate operations under the 1994 assets forfeiture act. Under the Jamaican constitution, a trafficker must be convicted, and conviction upheld on appeal, before assets can be forfeited.
Appeals can take years to complete.
No assets were forfeited to the government in 1996. The proceeds from narcotics exports from Morocco are easily repatriated. The government of Morocco makes no serious effort to trace drug or contraband money. There are in fact no laws against money laundering that would allow them to prosecute offenders effectively. Much of the revenue is invested in real estate, especially in Northern Morocco, where drug money is an important source of income and has supported a construction boom.