APPG Chair Margaret Hodge and member Robert Buckland have today written to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan MP asking for more donor transparency from British universities👇

Coverage from openDemocracy here👉 opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

🚨📰🧵 Today, we wrote to the Foreign Sec urging 3 steps to help #FreeGubad Ibadoghlu, a UK resident, anti-corruption campaigner & political prisoner facing trial in Azerbaijan.

He also faces grave medical concerns.

Our op-ed in the Daily Express:

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🚨📽️ The new Economic Crime Manifesto from APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax and APPG on Fair Business Banking has four pillars 🏛️

Kathryn Westmore, Senior Research Fellow at CFS, was at the manifesto launch 🚀 last week, and explained why the Enforcement pillar is so crucial.

#UKPolitics , #Westminster

As Spotlight on Corruption's Helen Taylor outlines below, the next Gvt must take on the enablers of economic crime by introducing smart regulation.

Read our full proposals for driving dirty money out of the UK here👉economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk

Our Chair Margaret Hodge speaking to Shelagh Fogarty on LBC about our new Economic Crime Manifesto.

With real transparency, smart regulation, proper enforcement and genuine accountability we can drive dirty money out of the UK.

Read the manifesto here👉economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk

A huge pleasure to see so many tireless campaigners from parliament, civil society and industry at the launch of our new Economic Crime Manifesto with APPG on Fair Business Banking.

Together we can drive dirty money out of the UK economy.

Read the manifesto here👉economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk

Today I spoke to Times Radio about why our new Economic Crime Manifesto is needed.

Whether it's tax evasion, money laundering or illicit wealth pouring into our property market, we are awash with dirty money.

The UK's economic crime epidemic is a multibillion pound problem.

The UK remains the destination of choice for every oligarch, criminal and kleptocrat looking to launder & hide their dirty money.

Our failure to act means our economy is more unequal, our national security is compromised & our political institutions are exposed to dirty money.

👇Top Read!

Once again, our Chair Margaret Hodge makes the case for finally implementing public registers of beneficial ownership in the UK's network of tax havens.

We must be able to throw open the books & follow the money in these havens🌴💷

thetimes.co.uk/article/b31e07…

📢Tomorrow, the APPG on Fair Business Banking & APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax will be launching our new Economic Crime Manifesto!

We'll be setting out exactly how any future government can combat economic crime.

💻Sign up at the bottom of this page to have it sent to your inbox: anticorruption-responsibletax.org

Tomorrow, I will be at the Ministry of Justice talking about lawfare against research on kleptocracy & then in Parliament for the launch of the cross-party APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax economic crime manifesto.

You can’t fight kleptocracy if you can’t research it.

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🚨📰🎞️🧵 1/3 NEW REPORT!

Today we release a new report with Tax Justice UK reviewing how Britain’s Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories have fared in setting up public registers of beneficial ownership.

Progress is “painfully slow”: Rachael Henry

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, Britain's network of offshore tax havens must open public registers of beneficial ownership.

It's high time that we follow the dirty money flowing into these havens. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

thetimes.co.uk/article/4f44c4…

📣 NEW REPORT 📣

We need to reform the House of Lords!

Our research found almost 1 in 4 party nominations were political donors – handing over £58 million since 2013.

This is damaging public trust and bringing the Lords into disrepute.

Read more ➡️ transparency.org.uk/seats-sale-new…

Does the UK need an Office for Economic Crime?

Great line of thought from David Lewis

UK Anti-Corruption Coalition @CFCS_RUSI
APPG on Fair Business Banking
APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax Margaret Hodge
Liam Byrne MP

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Our Executive Director Susan Hawley has a The Guardian comment piece out today, reflecting on David Pegg & rob evans’s fantastic reporting on bombshell Saudi defence deal revelations & corruption allegations 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Top read from Alex Jacobs following the launch of Tom Mayne's report on PR and Communication Agencies and Kleptocracy this week👇

📰Brilliant to have our Co-Chair Liam Byrne MP bring together a range of voices to launch a Foreign Policy Centre report addressing the relationship between PR agencies and kleptocracy the world over👇

And here's the report! Thanks again to Foreign Policy Centre The Bureau of Investigative Journalism APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax colleagues for your contributions to this excellent launch event.
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