Tougher Enforcement

UK court rules frozen funds can be used to pay sanctioned Russian billionaire’s luxury expenses

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...

ENRC v SFO and Dechert judgment

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...

Joint Statement: Spotlight on Corruption and African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ)

Today’s announcement that the UK’s National Crime Agency has recovered $23.5 million of funds stolen from Nigeria by family and associates of former head of state, Sani Abacha, is very...

Briefing – how the fight against fraud and other economic crime is undermined by lack of resources

This briefing is designed to assist Justice Committee members in their evidence session with the Security and Borders Minister, the Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, and Duncan Tessier, Director for...

The Unaoil Bribery Scandal

R v Basil Al Jarah (guilty plea) R v Ziad Akle, Stephen Whiteley and Paul Bond (trial court: T20177415; 20187107) R v Paul Bond (retrial: T20177415; 20187107) R v Ziad...

Closing the UK’s economic crime enforcement gap: Proposals for boosting resources for UK law enforcement to fight economic crime.

• Dr Daniel Beizsley

• Dr Susan Hawley

Economic crime – which includes corruption, bribery, money laundering and fraud – poses a major risk to the UK’s national security, corrupts financial institutions and markets, reduces economic performance and...

PRESS RELEASE: GOVERNMENT SPENDS EQUIVALENT OF JUST 0.042% OF GDP ON FIGHTING ECONOMIC CRIME – NEW ANALYSIS

New analysis from Spotlight on Corruption finds that the UK government spends the equivalent of just 0.042% of GDP (£852 million) per year on fighting economic crime, even though annually...

The UK’s new framework for transparent and accountable asset return — putting this global precedent into perspective and into practice

• Dr Helen Taylor

Spotlight on Corruption welcomes the UK’s new “Framework for transparent and accountable asset return” as a positive step in the fight against corruption. For this Framework to be effective, the...