Corruption causes enormous harm. It damages trust in public institutions and governance, causes significant losses to the public purse, and distorts public spending priorities. Yet the detailed harm caused by specific corrupt acts is rarely elaborated in court trials or put to juries in corruption cases. Those who are harmed most by the corruption – often the poorest in affected countries – rarely receive any compensation or direct benefit from successful enforcement actions.
We advocate for proper representation of harm caused by corruption in criminal trials and Deferred Prosecution Agreements, and compensation to be given to victims of bribery, corruption and economic crimes, particularly to communities that have suffered harm from these crimes.
A group of anti-corruption NGOs has written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy urging the UK government to take swift action to identify, seize and return assets stolen from the people...
Today Mozambique substantially won its $3.1 billion claim against Abu Dhabi shipbuilder Privinvest over its role in a corrupt conspiracy to secure government-backed loans over a decade ago for a...
In July 2024, Spotlight on Corruption and Malawian NGO Youth and Society wrote a joint letter to the National Crime Agency (NCA) concerning compensation for the overseas victims of alleged...
Exactly two years ago in a packed London courtroom, Glencore pleaded guilty to paying $29 million in bribes to benefit from special oil deals in five African countries. Although the...
Joint press statement As a broad coalition of civil society organisations, we call on the Federal Government of Nigeria to publish its $50 million settlement with Glencore International A.G. and...
Joint briefing on behalf of Resource Matters, ANEEJ and Spotlight on Corruption Glencore is the world’s largest commodity trader. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and listed at the London...
Spotlight on Corruption in September 2023 joined almost 50 other Nigerian and UK civil society organisations organisations in writing to Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to...
Mozambique has struck a last-minute deal to end a high-stakes dispute over Credit Suisse’s role in the “tuna bond” corruption scandal, which was set to go to trial in London this week....
