A group of anti-corruption NGOs has written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy urging the UK government to take swift action to identify, seize and return assets stolen from the people...
Corruption costs lives in developing countries and the UK is part of the problem. Its army of ‘professional enablers’ (including bankers, lawyers, estate agents and accountants) help to launder and...
The UK’s unique use of its aid budget to fund law enforcement efforts to combat international corruption falls far short of what’s needed despite delivering “welcome and valuable enforcement outcomes,”...
Several recent major court cases in the UK have shown how vulnerable arbitration can be to abuse by corrupt actors. As a major centre for international arbitration – settling disputes...
Six years after the National Crime Agency (NCA) applied for the first-ever Unexplained Wealth Order, it has this month secured the forfeiture of two luxury properties – a house in...
Today Mozambique substantially won its $3.1 billion claim against Abu Dhabi shipbuilder Privinvest over its role in a corrupt conspiracy to secure government-backed loans over a decade ago for a...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked a radical shift in the UK’s use of sanctions, as the UK scaled up its ambition for this key tool of...
The report – “All bark and no bite?: Taking stock of the UK’s enforcement of sanctions” – reveals that there have been ZERO fines for breaches of financial sanctions imposed since 2022, ZERO convictions for sanctions evasion since 2012, and ZERO assets permanently seized through civil or criminal action related to sanctions violations.
