UNEXPLAINED WEALTH ORDERS WILL STOP UK BEING GRAFT HAVEN, CLAIMS TI
May 1st, 2017
New Unexplained Wealth Orders that passed into UK law on April 27 are as significant in the global fight against corruption as the 2010 Bribery Act, according to anti-graft group Transparency International UK (TI). The orders, a provision of the new Criminal Finances Act, will empower UK law enforcement agencies to target corrupt money flowing into the UK and more easily return it to those from whom it has been stolen, said a TI note. They will enable them to secure a High Court order requiring an individual or organisation to explain their ownership of property ...
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