This 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...
Spotlight on Corruption has joined almost 50 other anti-corruption organisations in writing to Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to urge them to ensure the prompt, transparent...
In December 2019, the National Crime Agency (NCA) struck a most unusual deal with one of Pakistan’s most powerful men, property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain. The deal, brokered by the...
Today we are publishing the letter we received from the Serious Fraud Office in response to one sent by Spotlight in February this year asking them to confirm what assessment...
Javad Marandi, an international businessman and major donor to the Conservative Party, can nowbe named as someone found to be “a person of importance” in a court case about the...
Yesterday’s long awaited fraud strategy contained some welcome commitments despite being launched with no new public funding. The strategy focuses however on consumer fraud which costs UK citizens £6.8 billion...
The Economic Crime Plan is a really welcome set of commitments from the government but needs to be matched by much more ambitious public investment, including in training, if the...
There is broad consensus that current UK whistleblowing protections are not fit for purpose and excellent work is being done in Parliament to promote the creation of an Office of...