Asset Recovery Tracker

This section tracks the amount of criminal assets or ‘dirty money’ which law enforcement has recovered since 2013/14 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Annual asset recovery through different tools

Asset recovery aims to ensure crime does not pay, helps break criminal and corrupt business models and acts as a powerful deterrent. This first chart compares the total amount of criminal assets or ‘dirty money’ which law enforcement has frozen (temporarily depriving criminals access to funds) and recovered (permanently taking funds from criminals) since 2013/14 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Freezing of criminal assets

This second chart shows the value of assets frozen by UK authorities between 2013/14 to the present through both criminal (restraint orders) and civil (cash seizures, account freezing orders, listed asset seizures) mechanisms. Listed assets include precious metals, precious stones, watches, and works of art, all of which must be worth more than £1000.

This chart shows the value of assets that have been recovered by UK authorities from 2013/14 to the present through criminal and civil mechanisms. Confiscation orders are made against convicted defendants ordering them to pay the amount of their benefit from crime, while the remaning mechanisms are civil proceedings relating to specific assets and do not require a criminal conviction.

Recovering the proceeds of grand corruption

This visualisation tracks the total value of assets recovered from grand corruption cases that have been returned to victim countries. These figures represent a key indicator of how effectively the UK is fulfilling its obligations to combat kleptocracy and return stolen assets.

Explore the rest of the data:

• Anti-Corruption Enforcement Tracker home page →
• Money Laundering Tracker →
• Fraud Tracker →
• Bribery Tracker →
• AML Supervision Tracker →

For more information, please see the methodology section.