Saman Ahsani, one of the kingpins of the corrupt Unaoil empire, was recently sentenced in a Houston courtroom to one year in a minimum security prison and a $1.5 million...
Spotlight on Corruption has written to the Serious Fraud Office to call for action to recover any assets in the UK that are the proceeds of corruption belonging to the...
One year since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Spotlight on Corruption Executive Director Dr Susan Hawley and Tom Keatinge, Director of The Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at...
One of the biggest arbitral enforcement disputes kicked off in London last week, as Nigeria seeks to overturn an award worth $11.1 billion obtained by a small offshore company following...
Yesterday the government signalled it will introduce amendments on corporate criminal liability reform in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. We strongly welcome this major development on an issue...
A lot has happened since the NCA Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) published its last annual report in November 2020 on suspicious activity reports on money laundering. Though Russia’s 2022 invasion...
In the dying days of 2022, HM Treasury released two years of covid-backlogged data on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) supervision in the UK. This 2020-2022 report yields no clear picture of...
While Spotlight welcomes the government’s commitment in today’s statement to Parliament that it will never again have a visa scheme based solely on wealth, we are disappointed that the full...
