The Anti-Corruption Strategy – containing 120 commitments, spanning everything from tackling professional enablers to facilitating asset recovery – is undoubtedly welcome. Coming three years after the previous Anti-Corruption Strategy expired,...
Due to the anonymity that cryptocurrency can afford, and the way it can be used to obscure the true source of funds (including from the proceeds of crime), political donations...
Ahead of International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December, the UK’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper unveiled plans for the upcoming Illicit Finance Summit to be hosted by the UK on 23-24...
Spotlight on Corruption strongly welcomes today’s publication of a new UK government anti-corruption strategy with a comprehensive and wide-ranging set of 120 commitments. As global anti-corruption norms slide, tackling corruption...
Ashley Hurst of Osborne Clarke LLP is appealing against the decision of the Solicitor’s Disciplinary Tribunal that Hurst improperly attempted to restrict a tax lawyer from publishing correspondence revealing he...
With the Elections Bill on the horizon, the UK government is in the process of weighing-up whether to bring in strict controls on political donations made in cryptocurrency – or...
Today ex-Reform UK politician Nathan Gill became the first British politician to be sentenced for bribery in a landmark corruption case that has lifted the lid on the vulnerability of...
A new tool tracking the progress of anti-money laundering (AML) supervision shines a light on the real weaknesses and inconsistencies in the current supervisory regime and underscores the urgency of...
