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ENRC v SFO and Dechert judgment
The High Court has today declined to grant the key demands sought by Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited (ENRC) against the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) relating to the conduct of its corruption investigation into the Kazakh mining giant. Today’s judgment...
Joint Statement: Spotlight on Corruption and African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ)
Today’s announcement that the UK’s National Crime Agency has recovered $23.5 million of funds stolen from Nigeria by family and associates of former head of state, Sani Abacha, is very welcome. These looted funds were laundered through an intricate web of Western bank...
Statement on news that the UK government will scrap ‘golden visas’
The leaked news that the Home Secretary is planning to scrap the UK’s ‘golden visa’ program is highly welcome. For too long, Tier 1 Investor visas have laid out the red carpet to dirty money, giving kleptocrats, fraudsters and criminals easy access to UK residency and...
Half of VIP lane companies supplied PPE worth £1 billion that was not fit for purpose
11.02.2022 Spotlight on Corruption has established that 25 of the 50 companies in the government’s ‘VIP lane’ supplied PPE worth £1 billion that was not fit for purpose. This amounts to 59% of all money awarded to VIP lane companies for PPE. One third of the total...
Spotlight on Corruption’s Dr Susan Hawley signs letter urging Foreign Secretary to impose sanctions on Kazakhstan’s kleptocratic elite
Liz TrussSecretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development AffairsKing Charles StreetLondonSW1A 2AH 3rd February 2022 Dear Secretary of State Targeted anti-corruption sanctions in relation to Kazakhstan We are writing to urge you to impose...
PRESS RELEASE: GOVERNMENT SPENDS EQUIVALENT OF JUST 0.042% OF GDP ON FIGHTING ECONOMIC CRIME – NEW ANALYSIS
New analysis from Spotlight on Corruption finds that the UK government spends the equivalent of just 0.042% of GDP (£852 million) per year on fighting economic crime, even though annually economic crime costs the UK economy £290 billion – equal to 14.5% of GDP – at a...
Eighteen organisations reiterate their support for Carole Cadwalladr as she faces SLAPP trial
Eighteen organisations reiterate their support for Carole Cadwalladr as she faces SLAPP trial 14 January 2022 The undersigned organisations reiterate their support for award-winning journalist and author, Carole Cadwalladr, who is facing a week-long defamation trial...
Statement on the CSPL report, Standards Matters 2
Spotlight on Corruption strongly welcomes today’s Committee on Standards in Public Life roadmap for upgrading how standards in public life are regulated. This roadmap represents a realistic but robust agenda for reform. The government must act quickly to implement the...
Spotlight joins 14 other organisations in condemning lawsuits brought by ENRC against Tom Burgis
We join with 14 other organisations to condemn legal action against the journalist, the Financial Times and HarperCollins in London The undersigned organisations express their serious concern at the legal proceedings that have been filed in a UK court against...
Press Release: The UK’s Golden Visa scheme needs urgent reform and greater transparency to address national security risk
12 July 2021 The UK’s golden visa scheme poses a significant corruption, money laundering and national security risk, says Spotlight on Corruption in a new briefing released today. Spotlight has also learnt via a Freedom of Information request, that all golden visas...