CANBERRA, ACT, Nov. 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
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A Victorian couple who enslaved a woman for eight years have had the proceeds of the sale of their home forfeited and ordered to pay $140,000 in combined penalties to the Commonwealth.
The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) restrained the Mount Waverley house in 2016 under the Proceeds of Crime Act (Cth) after the couple was charged with slavery offences.
The couple, a man, now 61, and a woman, now 58, were each found guilty in a jury trial in 2021 and sentenced to imprisonment for enslaving a woman from India who had entered Australia on a tourist visit.
The house was s...