Assets Recovery Agency

The Assets Recovery Agency was an agency of the Department of Finance which was headed by the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency. The agency was responsible for ceasing illegally acquired assets of criminals involved in serious crime. The aims of the Assets Recovery Agency are to identify the criminally acquired assets of persons and to take the appropriate action to deny such people of these assets.

The Agency was merged with the Public Debt Collection Agency and the Debt Collection Bureau to form the Scottish Debt Collection and Recovery Agency in year 7.