The UK’s global anti-corruption sanctions regime allows the government to impose asset freezes and travel bans on those involved in certain kinds of corruption, namely bribery and misappropriation. They can be a powerful tool to hold to account those who commit serious corruption.
In partnership with other civil society organisations we work to ensure the global anti-corruption sanctions regime, and other UK sanctions regimes that may target corrupt actors such as those imposed on Russia, are used to their full potential.
This includes advocating for the government to:
By identifying potential loopholes and weaknesses in UK sanctions through our research and court monitoring programme we push the government to make sanctions as effective an anti-corruption tool as possible.
The government unveiled its first ever UK sanctions strategy last week to coincide with the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. There is no doubt that this anniversary...
Yesterday the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation’s (OFSI) annual review landed, with some alarming news. In the nearly two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, despite £22.7 billion of...
Today the first-ever judicial challenge to a designation under the UK’s Russia sanctions regime was dismissed, as the High Court upheld the government’s decision to impose sanctions against the US-UK...
At the end of June 2023, the UK introduced new restrictions to prohibit lawyers from advising Russian companies on certain business transactions that would be prohibited under sanctions if they...
The UK has designated more than 1,600 individuals and 220 entities in an unprecedented roll-out of sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Today, for the very first time, the courts...
In February 2023, Spotlight on Corruption Executive Director Dr Susan Hawley and Tom Keatinge, Director of The Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, wrote to Security Minister...
One year since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Spotlight on Corruption Executive Director Dr Susan Hawley and Tom Keatinge, Director of The Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at...
Spotlight on Corruption and RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies propose amending the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill to: This amendment would expand the scope of conduct...
