by Spotlight On Corruption | Jul 28, 2022
28.07.2022 A new poll by J.L. Partners, commissioned by Spotlight on Corruption, finds that by huge margins all voters want to see wide ranging reforms to standards in public life. Support for change is strongest amongst those who voted Conservative in 2019 but no...
by Spotlight On Corruption | Jul 21, 2022
21.07.2022 A third conviction in the Unaoil case was overturned on a grim day for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), when two reports were also published scrutinising failures that led to the collapse of the Unaoil and Serco cases. Stephen Whiteley, a former manager at...
by Spotlight On Corruption | Jul 18, 2022
18.07.2022 In a crucial test case for the UK sanctions regime, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruled today that funds frozen by the National Crime Agency (NCA) for suspected sanctions evasion can be used to pay what many would view as luxury expenses of Russian...
by Spotlight On Corruption | Jul 11, 2022
11.07.2022 Today’s revelations about the £76 million a year lobbying operation by Uber to swing government policies in its favour, and about the failure of successive ministers in the UK to properly declare meetings with the company, are the latest in a string of...
by Spotlight On Corruption | May 25, 2022
Sue Gray’s long-awaited report into Partygate has identified: “failures of leadership and judgment in No 10 and the Cabinet Office”, with the report saying that “the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of...
by Spotlight On Corruption | May 16, 2022
The High Court has today declined to grant the key demands sought by Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited (ENRC) against the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) relating to the conduct of its corruption investigation into the Kazakh mining giant. Today’s judgment...
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