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SFO charges three company directors with fraud for forestry investment scheme in Costa Rica
The directors were charged with fraud in relation to a collapsed scheme where 3,500 UK investors lost millions of pounds. Ethical Forestry Ltd operated tree plantations in Costa Rica and sold investments, starting at £12,000, in fast-growing hardwood saplings on their sites…
TI UK publishes report on Understanding Anti-Corruption Reporting
The report provides a comprehensive review of anti-corruption sustainability disclosures by 600 of the world’s largest companies across 15 jurisdictions, including the UK, revealing significant inconsistency in anti-bribery and corruption disclosure expectations…
OFSI amends Global Anti-Corruption Financial Sanctions lists
The Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 provide for the imposition of financial sanctions, namely the freezing of funds and economic resources persons who are or have been involved in serious corruption. The following entry has been corrected and is still…
HMCPSI publishes report on SFO’s case progression
The report concluded that the SFO has made extensive improvements in handling and progressing its cases. HMCPSI has recommended SFO to (i) Develop a strategic resourcing model by Dec 2023, (ii) All case controllers to be provided with enhanced management & leadership…
Home Office publishes results of the Economic Crime Survey 2020
The Home Office surveyed businesses in selected sectors and found that around 1 in 5 businesses had been a victim of fraud in the 3 years running up to the survey, and that almost half of them had experienced more than one incident. Debit or credit card fraud accounted…
UK Government publishes new Fraud Strategy for 2023
The new fraud strategy sets out over 50 measures to reduce fraud and cybercrime by 10% by 2025. The strategy would establish a coordinated response from the government, law enforcement, and the private sector to better protect the public and increase…
TI-UK publishes its 2023/24 Annual Plan under the 2021-2030 Strategy: ‘Stopping Corruption – Promoting Integrity’
The priorities for 2023/24 include focusing efforts on remaining gaps in Britain’s Dirty Money defences whilst ensuring the effectiveness of new measures triggered by the conflict in Ukraine, improving supervision of AML defences, corporate transparency in British Overseas…
TI UK publishes Policy Paper on Managing Revolving Door Risks in Westminster
This paper sets out TI-UK views on how to improve the regulation of post-public employment for former ministers and high-ranking civil
servants in Westminster. The movement of individuals between positions of public office and jobs in the private or voluntary sector in…
TI-UK insights from the UK’s register of overseas entities
The research details how almost 52,000 UK properties are still owned anonymously despite a new transparency law designed to reveal their true owners. a new database of the real owners of offshore firms that hold UK property, shows almost half of the companies required…
SFO secures three convictions in $500 million trade finance fraud
The SFO secured convictions of two executives of British steel trading business, Balli Steel Plc., on six counts of fraud. SFO investigators exposed how two of the defendants conspired to deceive trade finance banks by providing misleading information, false shipping documents and…
TI UK reveals that UK plunged to lowest-ever position in Corruption Perceptions Index 2022
UK has recorded its lowest-ever position in a global anti-corruption index after suffering a series of scandals in public life. The UK slipped to 18th place in the annual corruption rankings compiled by TI UK, placing it behind Uruguay, Estonia and Hong Kong….
UK calls for global community to step up fight against corruption
llicit finance and corruption have been used deliberately to gain access and influence in the UK and countries across the globe, threatening our democratic institutions, our politics, and our polices. The new bill also includes a reform of Companies House…