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Stopping corruption, promoting integrity.

We've just launched our refreshed strategy to 2030 - celebrating our successes and setting out the next stages of our work to deliver a world free from corruption.

Find out more ⤵️

transparency.org.uk/stopping-corru…

📢Today, alongside APPG on Fair Business Banking, we're launching our new Economic Crime Manifesto!

🧭This landmark document is a map & compass for any future government looking to bear down on economic crime and tackle the UK's dirty money problem.

Read more here👇👇👇economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk

🗣️“Parties should scrupulously avoid the perception that they’re offering privileged political access in return for cash.”

Following an @opendemocracy investigation Steve Goodrich spoke to the The Guardian about big money and access in politics.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

‘Close links between parliamentarians & the #vaping industry are concerning especially when Government is considering reforming its policies on smoking’ Rose Whiffen Transparency International UK #Lobbying #UKPolitics inews.co.uk/news/mps-pro-v…

In which a former Cabinet minister admits the perils of being in hock to a small pool of wealthy donors:

🛑 Undue influence, leading to poor decisionmaking
🛑 Donors' expecting a return on investment, 'holding out for gongs and peerages'

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Former cabinet minister re: reliance on big donors:

'It...means we are in hock to just a very select group of people who are not really representative of what is going on across the country.

'...Some are absolutely holding out for gongs and peerages.'

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

🚨📰🎞️🧵 1/3 NEW REPORT!

Today we release a new report with Tax Justice UK reviewing how Britain’s Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories have fared in setting up public registers of beneficial ownership.

Progress is “painfully slow”: Rachael Henry

ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/beneficia…

🗣️ “If they were deployed against people that weren’t as politically powerful, they could be more useful.”

@bencowdock spoke to City A.M. about Unexplained Wealth Orders and the challenge to sniff out illicit wealth and rid the city of dirty money.

cityam.com/why-the-mcmafi…

Our new report published with TI Defence&Security warns that the U.S. is ignoring potentially dangerous corruption risks around opaque defense contract payments (aka ‘offsets’) that threaten to undermine U.S. and international security.

Read it here: us.transparency.org/resource/bliss…

🗣️ APPGs have long been “a backdoor for lobbyists, including those representing big oil and kleptocrats”.

Following new transparency rules @stevejgoodrich spoke to Tortoise about the lobbying risks of APPGs and the need for further reform.

tortoisemedia.com/2024/04/10/uk-…

The team Transparency International UK sends sincere condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of Gretta Fenner.

Her death is a terrible personal tragedy that also takes away one the leading lights of the #AntiCorruption community.

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More than £281m of anonymous donations have poured into Russell Group universities since 2017.

We've added our name to calls for new legislation requiring universities to publish a register of large donations and research funding. ⤵️

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

Another reason to add to the long list of why we need anti-corruption measures at the heart of any future Lords reform transparency.org.uk/publications/r…

🧵 It’s against the law to ‘sell’ seats to the House of Lords. Yet Transparency International UK’s latest research shows nearly 25% of party nominated peers in the last decade were also party donors #UKPolitics #HouseofLords #Democracy #AntiCorruption mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

✨ BLOG ✨

Following the release of our new report @rosewhiffen explains why the current status quo of the House of Lords leaves too many corruption risks unchecked and what we need to do to fix it.

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transparency.org.uk/current-status…