4.—Subject to the provisions of this Act, the objectives of the Bureau shall be—

(a) the identification of the assets, wherever situated, of persons which derive or are suspected to derive, directly or indirectly, from F3[criminal conduct],

(b) the taking of appropriate action under the law to deprive or to deny those persons of the assets or the benefit of such assets, in whole or in part, as may be appropriate, and

(c) the pursuit of any investigation or the doing of any other preparatory work in relation to any proceedings arising from the objectives mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b).