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The integrity of the UK’s next election is at serious risk from rogue actors overseas
7 December, 2023This week Spotlight on Corruption wrote to the National Crime Agency (NCA) to urge it to take a leading role in coordinating enforcement of the UK’s electoral finance laws –…
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Regulating the accountancy profession for money laundering – is business as usual working?
4 December, 2023Over the summer the government consulted on whether major reform was needed to the UK’s regime for supervising money laundering. On the table were some admirably ambitious proposals, including having…
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Submission to HM Treasury’s anti-money laundering consultation, September 2023
23 November, 2023Spotlight on Corruption’s submission to HM Treasury’s consultation: “Reform of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Supervisory Regime”
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Press release: Corruption trial of two middlemen in UK-Saudi arms deal gets underway
23 November, 2023This week the long-awaited trial of two individuals accused by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) of paying millions in bribes to senior Saudi officials to secure lucrative defence contracts for…
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Submission to the House of Lords European Affairs Committee, November 2023
22 November, 2023The global sanctions response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been unprecedented, not only in terms of the scale and severity of sanctions measures that have been imposed but also the extent of international coordination and cooperation that this has entailed. The rapid expansion of the UK’s sanctions programme has not been without its challenges, but the UK government should be credited for acting at speed and under significant pressure in the early stages of the war to scale up its sanctions response.
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How will the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act help fight corruption, and does it go far enough?
27 October, 2023Introduced in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which highlighted the UK’s role as a hub for illicit Russian money, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA)…
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