hehe, money is not stolen goods in this case if they got it for protection or running a betting agency...
So no, I never heard of such a law. Also you have to PROVE the wife knew where the money came from. She can always pretend that she was lied to. I don't recall one case when a maffia wife was jailed just for living off of the income... It could happen but obviously they ain't scared...
actually no you dont, in the case of stolen goods its enough to simply hold them (ask alot of former car owners who bought there cars honestly from ads on things like cars guide only to find out they no longer have a car because it was stolen and they cant get there money back)
On finances, you dont have to prove SQUAT under SA legislation. THEY have to prove that the money was obtained legally, the burden of proof is on the person not the state anymore (the law was changed last year from memory). If you cant prove it then the assets get siezed by the state and sold and the procideds go into the victoms of crime fund. It can be cash, Shares, houses, boats, cars, TVs, ect ect, ie it can be anything. You have to prove where you got it from. Now a quite simple change to the law will remove the ability of criminals to hide assets in the spouses name. "You know that necklace that chopper ried gave you? can you prove where the money came from? no, fine its ours now, those tickets to the ballet you went to yesterday, where did the money come from? you dont know? you now owe us the cost of the tickets" ect ect
This is how the law is written, its just not how its currently aplied and if it WAS then there would be a huge disinsentive to get involved with gangsters which itself would be a huge disinsentive to actually commit crime.
Further more there is precidence for this, for instance if you lend your partner your car and they commit an offense under the hoon legislation the police can sieze and either sell your car (and again the procideds go to victoms of crime) or it can be crushed. Doesnt MATTER if you say you didnt know what they were going to do with it, you are deemed to have been irrisponcable in loaning the car to them and there for its "tough titties"