We are a civil society organisation that closely monitors the effectiveness of the UK’s AML and asset recovery regimes including through our unique court monitoring programme, our analysis of data on asset recovery as reflected in our recently launched online tracker, and in-depth policy reports and briefings. In particular, we focus on whether the UK’s AML and asset recovery regimes are being actively enforced to ensure there is no impunity for corruption and the laundering of its proceeds, whether the agencies responsible for this enforcement are adequately resourced, and the extent to which the UK is fulfilling its international obligations to tackle corruption and illicit finance and recover the proceeds of these crimes.
We have fed into government policy in these areas through publications, roundtables, and inputs into consultations, particularly in relation to the supervision of the legal sector, and enforcement performance and resourcing including in relation to asset recovery. We engage regularly with regulators, law enforcement agencies and practitioners, and are involved in the Civil Society Steering Group for the Economic Crime Plan 2. We have also engaged closely with multistakeholder processes such as the Latimer Network.
Full answers to the questions posed are in the document linked below.
