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Fri 01 Jan 2007€18m of assets held in Manchester operationThe lawyer representing a businessman whose assets were frozen yesterday by the UK's Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has denied his client has been involved in criminality.This follows the seizure of £11.8 million (€17.97 million) of assets in the Manchester area, the largest action taken to date by the ARA, which is the UK equivalent of the Criminal Assets Bureau in the Republic.