APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
@appgonacrt.bsky.social
Building a fair and transparent tax system. Campaigning against corruption and dirty money. Working cross-party for real change.
Chaired by Phil Brickell MP
Chaired by Phil Brickell MP
🔎 Last week in Westminster Hall, MPs set out how financial secrecy in Britain’s Overseas Territories is something that hits communities hard across the UK. When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, it is working people here at home who pick up the bill 👇🧵
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🔎 Last week in Westminster Hall, MPs set out how financial secrecy in Britain’s Overseas Territories is something that hits communities hard across the UK. When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, it is working people here at home who pick up the bill 👇🧵
🚨 👍 🧵 1/ As our friends at the @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org say, the forthcoming #AutumnBudget could bring in more revenue if we provided more support for HMRC and our enforcement agencies.
We wrote about this in a major report earlier this year:
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/cleanfoundat...
We wrote about this in a major report earlier this year:
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/cleanfoundat...
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🚨 👍 🧵 1/ As our friends at the @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org say, the forthcoming #AutumnBudget could bring in more revenue if we provided more support for HMRC and our enforcement agencies.
We wrote about this in a major report earlier this year:
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/cleanfoundat...
We wrote about this in a major report earlier this year:
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/cleanfoundat...
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🗣️ Yesterday, MPs of all stripes spoke out against the ongoing financial secrecy in certain UK Overseas Territories. They called urgent attention to its devastating impacts on their constituents, and pushed the government to act.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🗣️ Yesterday, MPs of all stripes spoke out against the ongoing financial secrecy in certain UK Overseas Territories. They called urgent attention to its devastating impacts on their constituents, and pushed the government to act.
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🚨 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is leading a debate today on how financial secrecy in Britain's Overseas Territories is harming communities throughout the UK.
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚨 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is leading a debate today on how financial secrecy in Britain's Overseas Territories is harming communities throughout the UK.
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
🔎 New analysis highlights how Georgia has become a key node in Russia’s sanctions-evasion network - turning Western restrictions into profit through re-exports, permissive regulation, and oligarchic capture 👇
Dealing with the Sanctions Bubble in Georgia - The Foreign Policy Centre
Summary Western sanctions against Russia, designed to isolate and weaken the Kremlin’s war economy, have instead generated a global “sanctions bubble”: an adaptive ecosystem of intermediaries, offshor...
fpc.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🔎 New analysis highlights how Georgia has become a key node in Russia’s sanctions-evasion network - turning Western restrictions into profit through re-exports, permissive regulation, and oligarchic capture 👇
💷“For far too long crooks and kleptocrats looking to launder their ill-gotten gains have exploited weaknesses in our regulated sectors.”
Our Chair, Phil Brickell MP, spoke to City A.M. on yesterday's anti-money laundering supervision reforms.
👉Read more: www.cityam.com/fca-to-take-...
Our Chair, Phil Brickell MP, spoke to City A.M. on yesterday's anti-money laundering supervision reforms.
👉Read more: www.cityam.com/fca-to-take-...
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
💷“For far too long crooks and kleptocrats looking to launder their ill-gotten gains have exploited weaknesses in our regulated sectors.”
Our Chair, Phil Brickell MP, spoke to City A.M. on yesterday's anti-money laundering supervision reforms.
👉Read more: www.cityam.com/fca-to-take-...
Our Chair, Phil Brickell MP, spoke to City A.M. on yesterday's anti-money laundering supervision reforms.
👉Read more: www.cityam.com/fca-to-take-...
👏 Welcome news on AML supervision reform
The Government has today confirmed that the Financial Conduct Authority will take on responsibility for anti-money laundering supervision of the legal, accountancy, and trust and company service sectors.
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www.gov.uk/government/c...
The Government has today confirmed that the Financial Conduct Authority will take on responsibility for anti-money laundering supervision of the legal, accountancy, and trust and company service sectors.
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www.gov.uk/government/c...
Reforming anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing supervision
This consultation sets out four potential models for reform of the UK’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing supervisory system.
www.gov.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
👏 Welcome news on AML supervision reform
The Government has today confirmed that the Financial Conduct Authority will take on responsibility for anti-money laundering supervision of the legal, accountancy, and trust and company service sectors.
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www.gov.uk/government/c...
The Government has today confirmed that the Financial Conduct Authority will take on responsibility for anti-money laundering supervision of the legal, accountancy, and trust and company service sectors.
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www.gov.uk/government/c...
💷 Economic crime costs us billions every year, from fraud to money laundering.
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
💷 Economic crime costs us billions every year, from fraud to money laundering.
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
We welcome today’s UK-US action disrupting a major online fraud network which was using corporate secrecy in the British Virgin Islands and UK property to stash its dirty money.
It’s a reminder that there is more we can do to crack down on economic crime 👇
It’s a reminder that there is more we can do to crack down on economic crime 👇
Strong move from the new Foreign Secretary.
But it is shocking that fraudsters were able to hide behind shell companies in our own offshore territories, and then invest their ill-gotten gains in UK property.
It is time to drive dirty money out of our economy for good.
But it is shocking that fraudsters were able to hide behind shell companies in our own offshore territories, and then invest their ill-gotten gains in UK property.
It is time to drive dirty money out of our economy for good.
UK sanctions scam network ‘masterminds’ who bought London properties
Both men were born in China but hold Cambodian, Cypriot and Hong Kong citizenship.
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We welcome today’s UK-US action disrupting a major online fraud network which was using corporate secrecy in the British Virgin Islands and UK property to stash its dirty money.
It’s a reminder that there is more we can do to crack down on economic crime 👇
It’s a reminder that there is more we can do to crack down on economic crime 👇
🛑 The closure of ACOBA marks an opportunity to improve standards in public life.
The new Ethics and Integrity Commission must now enforce the rules diligently and effectively 👇
The new Ethics and Integrity Commission must now enforce the rules diligently and effectively 👇
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🛑 The closure of ACOBA marks an opportunity to improve standards in public life.
The new Ethics and Integrity Commission must now enforce the rules diligently and effectively 👇
The new Ethics and Integrity Commission must now enforce the rules diligently and effectively 👇
That’s a wrap on conference season!
With David Lammy confirming next year’s Illicit Finance Summit, and opportunities to shape the forthcoming Elections Bill, there’s real momentum to make progress in the year ahead.
Full roundup here ⬇️
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/news/2025-co...
With David Lammy confirming next year’s Illicit Finance Summit, and opportunities to shape the forthcoming Elections Bill, there’s real momentum to make progress in the year ahead.
Full roundup here ⬇️
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/news/2025-co...
From dirty money to clean politics: our takeaways from conference season — APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
During conference season this year, anti-corruption was firmly on the agenda. With the Illicit Finance Summit ahead, an anti-corruption strategy due, and reforms in the Elections Bill, there are real ...
anticorruption-responsibletax.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
That’s a wrap on conference season!
With David Lammy confirming next year’s Illicit Finance Summit, and opportunities to shape the forthcoming Elections Bill, there’s real momentum to make progress in the year ahead.
Full roundup here ⬇️
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/news/2025-co...
With David Lammy confirming next year’s Illicit Finance Summit, and opportunities to shape the forthcoming Elections Bill, there’s real momentum to make progress in the year ahead.
Full roundup here ⬇️
anticorruption-responsibletax.org/news/2025-co...
🗣️ "We need open registers of beneficial ownership, transparency, and letting sunlight be the best disinfectant."
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
October 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🗣️ "We need open registers of beneficial ownership, transparency, and letting sunlight be the best disinfectant."
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
👍 Delighted to be at Labour Conference with our friends at @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org
📑 Our new Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is a busy man!
🤝 If you're in town, come and see him and the coalition tomorrow:
Fighting Corruption in the New Trump Era
📆 Mon 29 Sept
🕒 3pm
🎈 Bluecoat Liverpool
📑 Our new Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is a busy man!
🤝 If you're in town, come and see him and the coalition tomorrow:
Fighting Corruption in the New Trump Era
📆 Mon 29 Sept
🕒 3pm
🎈 Bluecoat Liverpool
🚨 BREAKING: UKACC has arrived at the Labour Party conference, and the new chair of the @appgonacrt.bsky.social, @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is ready to get to work.
Come and find us at our events across Liverpool: ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/labour
Come and find us at our events across Liverpool: ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/labour
September 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
👍 Delighted to be at Labour Conference with our friends at @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org
📑 Our new Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is a busy man!
🤝 If you're in town, come and see him and the coalition tomorrow:
Fighting Corruption in the New Trump Era
📆 Mon 29 Sept
🕒 3pm
🎈 Bluecoat Liverpool
📑 Our new Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is a busy man!
🤝 If you're in town, come and see him and the coalition tomorrow:
Fighting Corruption in the New Trump Era
📆 Mon 29 Sept
🕒 3pm
🎈 Bluecoat Liverpool
🚨Cash for compliments: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has pled guilty to bribery for receiving payments while a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament.
⛔Russian political interference across Europe must be halted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
⛔Russian political interference across Europe must be halted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨Cash for compliments: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has pled guilty to bribery for receiving payments while a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament.
⛔Russian political interference across Europe must be halted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
⛔Russian political interference across Europe must be halted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👏 We welcome David Lammy's confirmation that the UK will host an Illicit Finance Summit in 2026.
This is a vital opportunity to strengthen the global fight against kleptocracy — from tackling the networks that enable Russian oligarchs, to ensuring beneficial ownership transparency.
This is a vital opportunity to strengthen the global fight against kleptocracy — from tackling the networks that enable Russian oligarchs, to ensuring beneficial ownership transparency.
September 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
👏 We welcome David Lammy's confirmation that the UK will host an Illicit Finance Summit in 2026.
This is a vital opportunity to strengthen the global fight against kleptocracy — from tackling the networks that enable Russian oligarchs, to ensuring beneficial ownership transparency.
This is a vital opportunity to strengthen the global fight against kleptocracy — from tackling the networks that enable Russian oligarchs, to ensuring beneficial ownership transparency.
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📺 Fantastic to see @spotlightcorruption.org’s research included in the brilliant ITV documentary ‘The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money’, which was screened on Sunday night. Here’s @suehawley.bsky.social explaining how much of the PPE sourced from the VIP Lane turned out to be unusable.
September 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
📺 Fantastic to see @spotlightcorruption.org’s research included in the brilliant ITV documentary ‘The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money’, which was screened on Sunday night. Here’s @suehawley.bsky.social explaining how much of the PPE sourced from the VIP Lane turned out to be unusable.
❗High-street money laundering and tax abuse is damaging communities nationwide. After our APPG received a briefing from the NCA last week, APPG Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social asked the Home Office what they’re doing about it ⬇
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
❗High-street money laundering and tax abuse is damaging communities nationwide. After our APPG received a briefing from the NCA last week, APPG Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social asked the Home Office what they’re doing about it ⬇
New officers, new direction ⬆️
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
September 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New officers, new direction ⬆️
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
Why are our high streets littered with vape shops that always appear empty yet claim to take in tens of thousands each week? Why are they lined with multiple barbers that never seem to cut any hair? These are questions MPs are now demanding answers to.
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Why are our high streets littered with vape shops that always appear empty yet claim to take in tens of thousands each week? Why are they lined with multiple barbers that never seem to cut any hair? These are questions MPs are now demanding answers to.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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It’s a great way to stay updated on our work in Parliament and beyond. Sign up here: anticorruption-responsibletax.org/sign-up
☀️And in case you missed it – you can read our summer newsletter here: mailchi.mp/fpc/summer-n...
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👏 We welcome the referral to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal of this case of alleged misconduct connected to the OneCoin fraud.
❌ Legal threats should never be allowed to silence those brave people who expose wrongdoing.
⚖ We need a universal anti-SLAPP law in the UK as soon as possible.
❌ Legal threats should never be allowed to silence those brave people who expose wrongdoing.
⚖ We need a universal anti-SLAPP law in the UK as soon as possible.
Just announced: the UK's most famous libel firm, Carter-Ruck, is being prosecuted before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for recklessly enabling a $4bn fraud
It's astonishing how reckless Carter-Ruck was - likely causing $$$ more to be lost to fraudsters
The full story:
It's astonishing how reckless Carter-Ruck was - likely causing $$$ more to be lost to fraudsters
The full story:
August 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
👏 We welcome the referral to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal of this case of alleged misconduct connected to the OneCoin fraud.
❌ Legal threats should never be allowed to silence those brave people who expose wrongdoing.
⚖ We need a universal anti-SLAPP law in the UK as soon as possible.
❌ Legal threats should never be allowed to silence those brave people who expose wrongdoing.
⚖ We need a universal anti-SLAPP law in the UK as soon as possible.
🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
🚨 📽️ 🧵 1/4 New video thread!
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 📽️ 🧵 1/4 New video thread!
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
📽️ 🧵 New video thread!
🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
📽️ 🧵 New video thread!
🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
July 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇