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🚨 🚦 🚨 The Covid Inquiry Module 5 (Procurement) starts on Monday, and we are core participants. 📅 Today, the Inquiry published its timetable for week 1: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/module-5-pub...

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👇 Tremendous new series from @theguardian.com. It is essential that these revelations generate real appetite for reform. The new code of conduct for Peers that is due to be approved by @houseoflords.parliament.uk is a crucial opportunity to get this right and build public confidence in Parliament.

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🚨 Statement 🚨 The US administration's pausing of all foreign bribery enforcement will precipitate a “race to the bottom”. www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/stateme... 1/10

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🗣️"We see the global fight against corruption hitting a plateau." As the UK remains at it's lowest ever #CPI2024 score @danieljbruce.bsky.social explains why urgent action is needed to strengthen anti-corruption frameworks here and abroad. See the full results ⤵️ transparency.org/en/cpi/2024

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday MP's debated tax transparency in the Overseas Territories in Westminster Hall. Great to see @joepowell.bsky.social began the debate by quoting our analysis that £5.9 billion in suspicious funds have been used to purchase UK properties through shell companies registered in the OTs.

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🗣️ "If overseas territories refuse to implement meaningful corporate transparency reforms, we must use our powers to ensure they do." An important piece by @joepowell.bsky.social on the need for full public registers in Britain's overseas territories. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The BVI's proposed company ownership register would make it virtually impossible to identify those behind offshore companies. This undermines global efforts to combat financial crime and poses a serious setback for corporate transparency. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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👇 Great points from @duncanhames.bsky.social at this crucial HCLG Committee session – just the latest in a series of key interventions on the subject of the vulnerabilities facing UK politics from foreign & undue influence through political finance.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

My @transparencyuk.bsky.social colleague @duncanhames.bsky.social shares our growing concerns, with a House of Commons committee, that big money in UK politics is distorting equality of voice in our democracy. #UKPolitics #AntiCorruption #Democracy

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🚨 📝 👀 A very interesting new paper from Georgia Garrod and @csc-barrington.bsky.social at our partners @sussex.ac.uk on the contested role of lawyers as facilitators of kleptocracy and grand corruption.

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The APPG calls on HMRC to urgently investigate whether Abramovich owes up to £1bn in unpaid tax, and to recover all that's owed, following investigation by @tbij.bsky.social @theguardian.com and BBC News 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 📰 ⛳ 🧵 In another story of opaque wealth stashed in the UK's Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, @jamiermann.bsky.social at @theferret.scot reveals details of the Cayman Islands company behind Loch Lomond Golf Club - where registration can cost $165,400... www.icij.org/investigatio... 1/3

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

🔍 A great scoop from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, and another timely reminder of why the work of our friends at the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition is so important. 👏 Find out more about the vital work of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, and how you can support it, here: antislapp.uk

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Yet again, more British Virgin Island companies at the heart of tax avoidance schemes worth almost £1bn to the taxpayer. We've said it before, and we will say it again: we can't rebuild our economy if we don't tackle economic crime, both at home & in our Oveseas Territories.

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💥 💸 Yet more extraordinary new revelations from our friends @tbij.bsky.social. 🤯 Sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich may owe a tax bill of circa 🌟£1bn🌟. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

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🔢 🗣️ 🧵 Interesting new opinion poll from @opiniumresearch.bsky.social into trust in politics. 🤝 Voters across the political divide seem to agree that the very rich have too much influence on UK politics. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... 1/4

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 🛥️ 💸 🧵 Huge new investigation from our friends at @tbij.bsky.social into how sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich may have evaded millions in tax through opaque offshore corporate structures and complex accounting practices. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... 1/5

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Join us for the ACE Seminar on "Ethical Leadership for Anti-Corruption: Lessons from Ethics Training in the Global South" with Prof. Jan Meyer-Sahling, Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham. 🗓️ Jan 27, 2025 | ⏰ 13:00 PM GMT 🌐 Location: Online 🚨 Register: bit.ly/aceseminar5

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🆕 Yesterday @bricksilk.bsky.social introduced a crucial Private Members’ Bill which would significantly improve #ethics regulation in government. In our latest article we examine why this Bill is desperately needed and why the government should seize this opportunity with both hands:

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🚨 💬 "I am not at all confident that we have the enforcement mechanisms in place for people that don’t want to play by the rules." www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... 🗣️ @joepowell.bsky.social paints a stark but urgent picture in his new interview with @willdunn.bsky.social in the @newstatesman.com

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Great to see @philbrickellmp.bsky.social highlight how poor regulation of political finance in the UK leaves us vulnerable to undue influence from overseas. The time to end the corrosive influence of big money in politics is well overdue. Read more from @duncanhames.bsky.social 👇

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Who wants to explain why it's important for journalists and civil society to access beneficial ownership information in the BVI? We at @transparencyuk.bsky.social will be responding fyi @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social @icij.org @occrp.org @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org

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