NGO SAYS UK FINES AND SEIZURES SHOULD BE RING-FENCED FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT BUDGETS
January 1st, 2022
The British government should ringfence assets recovered from fighting economic crime to reinvest into law enforcement agencies through a central fund, according to a January 2022 report from Spotlight on Corruption. ‘Closing the UK’s economic crime enforcement gap: Proposals for boosting resources for UK law enforcement to fight economic crime’ (1) was released following a review of five years’ resourcing for British agencies fighting economic crime, which includes corruption, bribery, money laundering and fraud. It concluded that UK law enforcement ...
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