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We bring together the UK's leading anti-corruption organisations, advocate to policymakers, hold the powerful to account, and drive real-world change.

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🚨 🎁 🚌 You wait for an anti-corruption starter pack and then two come along...

ICYM our good friends at @spotlightcorruption.org 's invaluable starter pack earlier this week, here's another...

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We will add more accounts as our members and others arrive!

#xodus, #anticorruption
🚨 NEW: We wrote to the Chancellor, urging her not to leave billions lost to illicit finance and tax-related crimes on the table ahead of the upcoming budget.

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Our letter to the Chancellor: Don’t leave billions lost to illicit finance and tax-related crimes on the table — UK Anti-Corruption Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday 6 November 2025 – Following her speech on Tuesday, and ahead of the November 26 budget, members of the Illicit Finance Working Group have written to Chancellor Rache...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🗣️ 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
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💥 BREAKING 💥

Scottish Government commits to anti-corruption strategy with improved transparency of trust structures (as proposed by Rhoda Grant in parliament).

This is an important commitment that will help prevent kleptocrats and oligarchs investing their ill-gotten gains in Scottish property.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🚨 1 in 3 law firms are not compliant with anti-money laundering rules.

📈 But, the government has recently taken steps to address this issue.

💷 If implemented correctly, this move could be transformational for the UK's dirty money problem.

Learn more: ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/release...
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🚨 Current estimates of misspent Covid PPE waste total at around £10bn.

🗣️ "UK taxpayers have every right to feel robbed... If Labour wants to prove it stands with them, it must pull every legal, administrative and political lever to get that money back."

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'Labour promised to clean up Tory sleaze. That starts with mispent Covid contracts' - LabourList
This government came to power on a promise to restore trust in politics. That promise cannot be fulfilled unless it takes on the Covid clawback fight in full.
labourlist.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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💷 2013 - 2023: Nearly 25% of political House of Lords nominations were party donors, giving £58m+ collectively.

At our event with @spotlightcorruption.org at Labour Conference, @duncanhames.bsky.social set out why big money's influence on UK democracy is damaging the public's trust.

Watch more ⬇️
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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👏 Brilliant to see Crossbench Peer Lord Cromwell set out the case in today's debate on the Crime and Policing Bill for securing desperately needed funding for the fight against #EconomicCrime by reinvesting seized assets and fines back into enforcement agencies.
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
👇 Don't miss our colleague @timpicton.bsky.social's cutting edge analysis of the significance of the first ever crypto donation to a political party.

🚨 It's a big moment, entailing big risks for our democracy. Read his piece below.
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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📢 HM Treasury’s #sanctions watchdog has released its latest annual report today, showing encouraging signs that investment in intelligence and enforcement capabilities is starting to bear fruit, but there is a long way to go to ensure robust deterrence for #sanctions evasion:
OFSI Annual Review 2024-25: Effective Sanctions
OFSI Annual Review 2024-25 published by the Treasury's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
www.gov.uk
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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👏 Really welcome to see these coordinated UK-US sanctions aimed at taking down a crypto investment scam in South East Asia, targeting BVI companies which invested in UK property including a £12m mansion in North London, a £100m office building in the City of London, and 17 flats around London.
UK and US take joint action to disrupt major online fraud network
Alongside the US Government, the UK has today sanctioned a network that operates illegal scam centres across Southeast Asia.
www.gov.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🚪🔚 Party Conferences Season 2025 comes to a close.

🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️ We've been busy!

🌎 From Bournemouth to Aberdeen, Manchester to Liverpool, we discussed the urgent need to fight corruption, tackle dirty, and restore trust in our politics.

❤️ Thanks to all of you who joined us -- see you next year!
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨🚂 Heading to the the SNP conference this weekend?

Join us at "Can You Keep A Secret?" 🤫🔐

🗓️ Sunday October 12 | 5pm | The Events Complex Aberdeen

➡️ Featuring @emmaharpermsp.bsky.social, Juliet Swann and @margotmollat.bsky.social of @transparencyuk.bsky.social, @theferret.scot's Jamie Mann.
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨🔵 UKACC AT CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE

🚆 Heading to Manchester this weekend? Don’t miss our event on Monday October 6 -- with expert speakers Sir Andrew Mitchell MP, @danieljbruce.bsky.social, John Penrose, @catneilan.bsky.social, and @brightblueuk.bsky.social.

👋 See you there!
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨🆕: Anti-Corruption Experts welcome Michelle Mone verdict — but call attention to the billions of taxpayer pounds still left to reclaim.

Read more from our experts: www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/release...
RELEASE: Anti-Corruption Experts welcome Michelle Mone verdict — but still billions left to reclaim. — UK Anti-Corruption Coalition
**For immediate release** Government must continue the fight to reclaim taxpayer money wasted during the pandemic, UK Anti-Corruption experts say. Wednesday 1 October 2025 — The UK Anti-Corr...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🗓️ 🚨HAPPENING TODAY: Brave New World? Fighting Corruption in the New Trump Era.

With @catneilan.bsky.social, @philbrickellmp.bsky.social, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, and @suehawley.bsky.social.

Monday 29 September | 3pm | Bluecoat Liverpool

See you there!
September 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨 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
September 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“A pandemic was always going to be expensive. But we didn’t need to turn it into the profiteers charter that we did.”

📺 A new ITV documentary goes behind the scenes to reveal how government PPE contracts lined the pockets of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch on @itvx.com now.
September 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
⬇️ This is the first time a British politician will be found guilty under the UK Bribery Act.
🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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📽️ NEW 📽️

Does the UK have a dark money problem?

Should we be worried?

As our Senior Research Officer, @rosewhiff.bsky.social explains - the public have a right to be concerned about the grip of dark money on our politics.
September 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📺 "It is probably the biggest misspending scandal in the UK of all time."

⚡ ITV's new documentary offers reveals the scale of fraud within UK government's PPE procurement processes.

Don't miss The Covid Contracts: Follow The Money, available on ITVX now: www.itv.com/watch/the-co...
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ from @guardian.

Don't miss this “devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal in the UK… of all time.”

Watch 'The Covid Contracts' now on ITV ➡️ www.itv.com/watch/the-co...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Full house today at our Liberal Democrat’s fringe event!

Important discussions on the impact of SLAPPs, the upcoming Illicit Finance summit, and shifting global anti-corruption norms in an era of Trump.

Learn more: ukanticorruptioncoalition.org
September 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
📺 TONIGHT 📺

🚨UK's Covid PPE contracts scandal exposed on @itvx.com

Don't miss this new documentary exposing the chaos behind COVID contracts.

Public money wasted, lives lost, and private companies profiting from this crisis. Watch tonight, 10.20pm on ITV1 📷 ⤵️
September 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
As Trump completes his second state visit to the UK, a reminder of one of the many alleged corruption scandals facing his administration:

As anti-corruption standards slip (or are brazenly ignored) around the world, the UK must show global leadership.

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Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.
newrepublic.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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🎙️ Is Keir committed to cleaning up politics?

Our Chief Executive @danieljbruce.bsky.social joined @alaintolhurst.bsky.social, @suehawley.bsky.social, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Lloyd Hatton MP on this week's The Rundown podcast to answer this question.

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The Rundown by PoliticsHome: Is Keir committed to cleaning up politics?
This week is a look under the bonnet of British politics, and shining a light into the dark corners of how Westminster’s finances operates, and seeing if the endless pledges to close loopholes an...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM