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

Beyond Covid fraud – the Government must go further to protect public money

• Dr Susan Hawley

The Government’s response to the Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner is out. Largely, the Government has accepted the Commissioner’s recommendations for tackling fraud. Disappointingly though, the Government rejected four of Tom Hayhoe’s 22 recommendations, which are critical to protecting public funds from fraud and corruption.

Uncomfortable scrutiny in London Mining is an opportunity to learn lessons

• Dr Helen Taylor

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will not have to pick up the legal bill for former defendants in its collapsed London Mining case, after a judge yesterday rejected claims that the agency should pay up because of alleged misconduct in their handling of the probe.

Government sets out its plan for making the FCA the super-regulator for money laundering

• James Bolton-Jones

As the  government lays out its plans for a major expansion of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) anti-money laundering (AML) supervision responsibilities, we look at how these proposals can be strengthened.

Fixing Companies House’s identity crisis demands strong enforcement

• Michael Griffiths

Companies House’s long overdue crackdown on individuals that have failed to verify their identities has begun, with a flurry of warning letters (equivalent to almost one-fifth of all companies registered), but strong enforcement must follow to remove the UK’s corporate registry from kleptocrats’ and fraudsters’ toolkits.

Corruption & economic crime prosecutions on the rise but white-collar criminals let off the hook

• James Bolton-Jones

New data on key corruption and economic crime offences in Spotlight’s enforcement tracker has revealed big increases in prosecutions across the board in 2024-25. But looking beyond the headline numbers, what story does this data really tell us about the state of anti-corruption enforcement in England and Wales?

Civil society recommendations on asset recovery for the Illicit Finance Summit 2026

Asset recovery – the process of tracing, freezing, seizing, managing, preserving, disposing, and returning the proceeds of crime and corruption or compensating victims of crime – lies at the heart…