Spotlight on Corruption shines a light on the UK’s role in corruption at home and abroad.

Nigeria’s bid to overturn a “sham” $11 billion arbitral award to P&ID

• Dr Helen Taylor

One of the biggest arbitral enforcement disputes kicked off in London last week, as Nigeria seeks to overturn an award worth $11.1 billion obtained by a small offshore company following…

UK government finally commits to reforming corporate criminal liability

• Dr Susan Hawley

• James Bolton-Jones

Yesterday the government signalled it will introduce amendments on corporate criminal liability reform in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. We strongly welcome this major development on an issue…

Is the NCA’s Financial Intelligence Unit’s first report in over two years worth the wait?

• Dr Daniel Beizsley

A lot has happened since the NCA Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) published its last annual report in November 2020 on suspicious activity reports on money laundering. Though Russia’s 2022 invasion…

Patchy progress towards effective AML supervision highlights the urgency of reform

• Dr Helen Taylor

In the dying days of 2022, HM Treasury released two years of covid-backlogged data on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) supervision in the UK. This 2020-2022 report yields no clear picture of…

Today’s Golden Visa statement by the Home Secretary isn’t enough

While Spotlight welcomes the government’s commitment in today’s statement to Parliament that it will never again have a visa scheme based solely on wealth, we are disappointed that the full…

#WestminsterAccounts: Transparency is not enough. We need real reform

• Dr Susan Hawley

So here we go again. The Westminster Accounts is the latest scandal showing how vulnerable UK politics is to those seeking undue influence with their cheque books and how money…