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 more than 120 commitments. As global anti-corruption norms slide,...
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...
Yesterday the UK Supreme Court unanimously found that P&ID, the small offshore company that tried to use arbitration proceedings to extort over $11 billion from Nigeria, must pay a hefty...
Today the Treasury announced long-awaited plans for a radical overhaul of the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) supervisory regime which will see the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) step up as a...
