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The Minister has previously pointed to existing uplifts to compensation orders as a solution. However, these are strictly limited by narrow legal definitions of a victim and their loss. They are fundamentally unsuited for the indirect victims of sanctions breaches—the millions of Ukrainians, for example, as we have heard today, harmed by the very war an oligarch has illegally supported. Amendment 418 would ensure that these rings of damage are addressed. Further, this is not intended to dismantle the asset recovery incentivisation scheme. These amendments are designed to work in parallel with ARIS, ensuring that any remaining balance after the public purpose has been served still flows back to law enforcement.