👇 Come and do my job at Spotlight! It's a fantastic opportunity to work with brilliant people tackling an important issue that affects us all. #anticorruption @charitycomms.bsky.social

When even millionaires, like us, recognise that extreme wealth has cost everyone else everything else, there can be no doubt that society is dangerously teetering off the edge of a precipice. We want our democracies back. We want our communities back. We want our future back.

#AntiCorruption job alert - @spotlightcorruption.org is looking for a highly motivated and gifted communicator. Details below: #NGOJobs #NonProfitJobs #vacancy #job @unjobs.org

🔥 Top opportunity for a brilliant comms person with our good friends at Spotlight on Corruption.

💥 Are you an experienced comms pro with a track record of crafting & delivering messages to achieve real change? ✊ Keen to join the fight against #corruption? 🫵 You might be the person we need! We’re looking for a comms adviser to join the friendly Spotlight team. Apply below 👇. Deadline: 14 Feb.

Wikipedia was created 25 years ago, today – since then it’s become the largest collection of relatively reliable knowledge in history But how vulnerable is it to those willing to pay top dollar to polish their reputations? And how do British PR firms help them do it?

💥 Are you an experienced comms pro with a track record of crafting & delivering messages to achieve real change? ✊ Keen to join the fight against #corruption? 🫵 You might be the person we need! We’re looking for a comms adviser to join the friendly Spotlight team. Apply below 👇. Deadline: 14 Feb.

🚨 A social housing investment scheme is the latest target of investigation by the Serious Fraud Office with a new probe announced today into allegations that really bring home the harms caused by #corruption and #fraud www.gov.uk/government/n...

🔥 As Starter Packs are doing the rounds again, here is a hastily updated #anticorruption pack with (mostly) a UK focus. 🙏 As always, any additions, deletions or edits much appreciated.

🎥 "The situation we have at the end of the day is... whatever rules you have, all of this conversation is about policing the perimeter." Yesterday @duncanhames.bsky.social gave evidence to parliament and explained to MPs and Peers why caps on donations are key to ending undue influence in politics.

💥 Powerful intervention from @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social in the Lords Chamber highlighting how the UK banking system is facilitating the environmental devastation and displacement being caused by the world’s largest private coal developer, the Adani Group ⬇️

👇 Good coverage here of the growing calls for a ban on donations to political parties in cryptocurrencies. “Crypto donations present real risks to our democracy,” says our Executive Director @suehawley.bsky.social.

💥 Powerful intervention from @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social in the Lords Chamber highlighting how the UK banking system is facilitating the environmental devastation and displacement being caused by the world’s largest private coal developer, the Adani Group ⬇️

🚨🚨 7 Select Committee Chairs urge PM to ban crypto donations 👇👇 Like them, we've called for a ban on crypto donations to political parties because they are hard to trace, facilitate risky borderless transfers, and can obscure the true source of funds. ➡️ Read more here: shorturl.at/B8hIs

👇 Good coverage here of the growing calls for a ban on donations to political parties in cryptocurrencies. “Crypto donations present real risks to our democracy,” says our Executive Director @suehawley.bsky.social.

🔥 As Starter Packs are doing the rounds again, here is a hastily updated #anticorruption pack with (mostly) a UK focus. 🙏 As always, any additions, deletions or edits much appreciated.

👏 Brilliant work by the Serious Fraud Office to make creative use of civil recovery tools to secure more than £400k for victims of an email scam in the UK 24 years ago:

👏 Brilliant work by the Serious Fraud Office to make creative use of civil recovery tools to secure more than £400k for victims of an email scam in the UK 24 years ago:

🆕 With the govt’s #ElectionsBill set to land in the coming weeks, we have a new entry in our ‘Bold Ideas for Electoral Reform’ series. Bob Posner, former @electoralcommission.org.uk chief exec, calls for year-round limits on political parties’ spending to prevent the cost of elections spiralling.

🆕 With the govt’s #ElectionsBill set to land in the coming weeks, we have a new entry in our ‘Bold Ideas for Electoral Reform’ series. Bob Posner, former @electoralcommission.org.uk chief exec, calls for year-round limits on political parties’ spending to prevent the cost of elections spiralling.

Great to see FCDO commitment in the UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2025 to "work more closely with international partners to support wider access to beneficial ownership data ... and wider uptake of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard" www.gov.uk/government/p... #beneficialownership #openstandards

Great to see @thetimes.com cover our latest report on how just a third of criminal assets frozen by UK law enforcement agencies in the fight against #dirtymoney is currently being recovered. www.thetimes.com/article/0c64...

Great to see @thetimes.com cover our latest report on how just a third of criminal assets frozen by UK law enforcement agencies in the fight against #dirtymoney is currently being recovered. www.thetimes.com/article/0c64...

🎉 🥳 #UNCAC #CoSP11 adopted resolution on political finance transparency, making it the first-ever set of principles agreed at UN-level to promote accountability in funding of political parties and campaigns. Congrats, Norway, Albania, Ghana, Mongolia @anticorruption.bsky.social @ifes.bsky.social!

🏠💷🏦 Last week, the NCA’s #AzerbaijaniLaundromat case was back in the courts with its claim against Javanshir Feyziyev to recover 22 properties and associated rental income, plus the balance of a Liechtenstein bank account currently held by the Azerbaijani businessman, his wife, or for their benefit.

🏠💷🏦 Last week, the NCA’s #AzerbaijaniLaundromat case was back in the courts with its claim against Javanshir Feyziyev to recover 22 properties and associated rental income, plus the balance of a Liechtenstein bank account currently held by the Azerbaijani businessman, his wife, or for their benefit.

👏 Welcome news that there will be an independent review into foreign interference in our politics. 👇 Here's Spotlight’s statement on what it should cover:

🚨🧵 1/ We welcome the new urgent Government review into foreign interference in UK politics. 👍 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social: "It's absolutely right that the Govt is reviewing our defences against foreign interference in light of Nathan Gill's bribery conviction." www.gov.uk/government/n...

👏 Welcome news that there will be an independent review into foreign interference in our politics. 👇 Here's Spotlight’s statement on what it should cover:

🚨 SCOOP: “I’m a Labour donor” Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...

@spotlightcorruption.org said this story “raises serious red flags about where political fundraising ends and private influence begins” Labour says it is not affiliated with Howlett or his Chamber Group. Howlett did not respond.

Hello everyone @ Bluesky 👋 We’re new here! Check out our website and stay tuned – more soon. raid-uk.org

What happens when a law firm acts for a business widely suspected of fraud — run by a convicted fraudster, owned by unknown parties, and unable to answer fraud allegations? And threatens whistleblowers, regulators and even the police who try to stop it? Nothing.

🚨BREAKING: The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal dismisses the case against Carter-Ruck's Claire Gill, in a shock decision that could give the green light for lawyers to continue to push the boundaries of what constitutes abusive litigation. #SLAPPs

🚨BREAKING: The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal dismisses the case against Carter-Ruck's Claire Gill, in a shock decision that could give the green light for lawyers to continue to push the boundaries of what constitutes abusive litigation. #SLAPPs

🚨 With few new announcements in the Anti-Corruption Strategy aimed at boosting political #integrity in the UK, Spotlight's @kamilakingstone.bsky.social looks at what the government should have said – and explains what it needs to do to show decisive action that will restore public trust in politics.

📢 Proud to be joining over 150 civil society organisations from across the globe calling for States Parties attending next week's UN Convention Against #Corruption meeting in Doha to commit to #integrity in the funding of political parties and elections. #UNCAC #COSP11

📣 Today the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will hear an application on behalf of Claire Gill, a partner at the libel law firm Carter-Ruck, to strike out proceedings commenced against her by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for allegedly making an “improper threat of litigation”.

📣 Today the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will hear an application on behalf of Claire Gill, a partner at the libel law firm Carter-Ruck, to strike out proceedings commenced against her by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for allegedly making an “improper threat of litigation”.

📋 With 120 commitments, it's an ambitious strategy that needs to turn into action - fast. 🗣️ As our co-chair, @opengavin.bsky.social said: "We finally have a clear diagnosis. What we need next is bold, rapid action that the public can see and feel."

📃 On Monday, the Government published their anti-corruption strategy. 🚀 UKACC joined Deputy PM David Lammy, @danjarvismp.bsky.social, Anti-Corruption Champion Margaret Hodge, @appgonacrt.bsky.social, and many others in launching it!

✍️ Spotlight’s Helen Taylor has teamed up with @jyansura.bsky.social of @factcoalition.bsky.social for this joint blog on why we urgently need to tackle the issue of illicit gold, a key means of criminals laundering their ill-gotten gains that has devastating impacts on people and the environment.

On International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December, IBA reaffirms the central role of the #legal profession in combating corruption, and its longstanding commitment to integrity and global cooperation, at a time when standards are under pressure. Read: www.ibanet.org/Internationa...

✍️ Spotlight’s Helen Taylor has teamed up with @jyansura.bsky.social of @factcoalition.bsky.social for this joint blog on why we urgently need to tackle the issue of illicit gold, a key means of criminals laundering their ill-gotten gains that has devastating impacts on people and the environment.

On #InternationalAntiCorruptionDay, we outline four ways the EITI is advancing anti-corruption, from exposing hidden ownership to informing due diligence and strengthening SOE and commodity trading #transparency. 👉 eiti.org/blog-post/transparency-integrity-four-ways-eiti-advancing-anti-corruption

🚨⏰ BREAKING — Over 1000 days since the last strategy expired, the government just published their new anti-corruption strategy. Our coalition of experts have shared their initial reaction, urging the government to go from ambition to action. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/from-as...

👇 Here's our initial take on today's announcement of the UK government's new anti-corruption strategy.

🆕 When it rains it pours… not only has the UK government published its new Anti-Corruption Strategy today, HM Treasury has also put out the latest annual report on anti-money laundering #AML supervision.

👇 Here's our initial take on today's announcement of the UK government's new anti-corruption strategy.

⚖️The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has today ruled against the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the 2nd case to arise out of a #SLAPP complaint which concerned the conduct of lawyer Christopher Hutchings of Hamlins LLP, drawing the Tribunal’s unprecedented private hearings to a close.