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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Concerning developments in Italy - spurious prosecutions directly threatening the independence of the judicial, and the country's anti-corruption efforts. Hope the OECD, the EU and other international bodies are watching closely. euobserver.com/221992/prose...

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Prosecutors fighting major corruption cases in Italy now risk criminal charges

If prosecutors can be targeted for good-faith procedural decisions, corrupt actors gain a powerful new weapon: turning the justice system against those investigating them. And that's what could be abo...

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🎥 10 years ago, the Panama Papers exposed corruption to the world. It uncovered billions of suspect funds moving through the global economy and how corrupt elites were hiding their stolen wealth. Since then, progress has been made but the flow of dirty money remains. 🔗Full link in comments ⤵️

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Now is our chance to change the way UK politics are done. Follow for more!

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Colleagues at TI Russia found that £6bn worth of Russians goods - many subject to sanctions - were traded globally with the support of British offshore financial centres. This highlights, once again, the urgency for meaningful corporate transparency. www.transparency.org.uk/news/compani...

transparency.org.uk

Companies in the UK’s Overseas Territories facilitated almost £6 billion worth of trade with Russia despite sanctions

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Duncan Hames @duncanhames.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Good to see new sanctions from the UK’s Foreign Office, joining the dots between state capture dismantling democracy in Georgia and the enablers of the Kremlin internationally projected propaganda.

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Sanctions on Georgian propaganda channels "only the beginning" say Transparency International UK

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Want to remove big money from politics? Take down corruption in the public sphere or stop the flow of dirty money laundered through the city? This job is for you! www.transparency.org.uk/who-we-are/w...

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🎦 MONEY TALKS 🎦 Yesterday, the Government introduced a bill aiming to stop foreign money influencing British elections. The problem, though, isn't where the super-rich are from, but that money - from here and abroad - can buy access to power and influence. More from @duncanhames.bsky.social ⤵️

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🗣️"The problem isn’t just about where the money comes from, but how much can be given and what may be expected in return.” Rose Zussman spoke with Max Kendix at The Times on how the Government's new proposed laws won't stop a small group of mega-rich UK donors influencing our politics. More ⤵️

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Labour to ban foreign party donors unless they make money in UK

Elections bill proposes tight cap on overseas donations as well as lowering voting age to 16 and other electoral changes

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My grumbles here on the Register of Overseas Entities — and why it’s still far too easy to hide behind shell companies and keep hoovering up UK property. 👇

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APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax @anticorruption-responsibletax.org · 25/11/2025

The MPs highlighted how throwing open the books in British Overseas Territories could put a stop crooks and kleptocrats using offshore shell companies to: 💷 Enable tax abuse 🏪 Hide dodgy high street shops 🕵️‍♂️ Clean cash for organised crime gangs 🏠 Distort the housing market

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

NEW PUBLICATION📢 Britain’s offshore financial centres pledged transparency, but progress remains limited. Our new report shows why transparency is vital to tackle corruption and illicit finance.

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UK Anti-Corruption Coalition @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org · 06/11/2025

Lloyd Hatton MP: “It really is very simple. We should be able to assess what tax is owed and then collect it. HMRC must get a firmer grip on the scale of wealth that is currently stashed away offshore... it’s clear we need to bolster its ability to spot and stop tax dodging.”

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🎥 "Because financial secrecy in our overseas territories has real-world consequences for my constituents... and for Britain's standing in the world." @appgonacrt.bsky.social chair, @philbrickellmp.bsky.social introduces today's debate on ending financial secrecy in Britain's Overseas Territories.

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Great points being raised by @philbrickellmp.bsky.social during a debate on the impact of offshore secrecy on our high streets, our national security, and our international standing as an anti-corruption leader.

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

💥 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.

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🚨 NEW 🚨 Billions of pounds of dirty money have been laundered through shell companies in the UK Overseas Territories, such as the BVI. Tomorrow MPs are debating ending financial secrecy these territories. Ahead of tomorrow's debate, watch below on why this matters ⤵️

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Today I was in Westminster listening to MPs debate the impact of corporate secrecy in the UK’s Overseas Territories - and the strength of feeling across the House was clear. As @tomhayesmp.bsky.social rightly put it: “it’s time to make dirty money history.” Watch the full debate : urli.info/1iR2u

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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Fossil fuel companies have an oily grip on our politics 🤝 On Wed 29th Oct, we'll discuss taking action to end fossil fuel lobbying in politics with Paul Dobson @theferret.scot & Juliet Swann & Rose Whiffen from @transparencyuk.bsky.social Join us in Edinburgh/online: act.foe.scot/nat_meeting_...

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Taking action to end fossil fuel lobbying in politics. 7-8.30pm, Wednesday 29th October. Edinburgh and online with The Ferret and Transparency UK. Photo of people protesting for a fossil free parliament with the Big Ben clock and a lampost in the background.

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Juliet Swann @muteswann.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

For the next week, if you donate to @transparencyuk.bsky.social we get DOUBLE THE MONEY! What a great deal! If you think tackling corruption & pushing for better standards in political life is important, do consider donating. I'd appreciate it 💓 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Politics – Big Give

In 2023 66% of donations to political parties came from just 19 donors. Increasingly, our politics is funded by a small number of super donors. We seek support to make sure those with the deepest poc...

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Friends, if you are worried about declining trust in politics, corruption, and vested interest - do consider donating to support Transparency International's work investigating and campaigning for a world free of corruption!

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Delighted to be speaking in Aberdeen on Sunday! Do come along.

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

WHO PAYS, WHO DECIDES? BIG MONEY IN BRITISH POLITICS 📆Monday, 4.30pm | Nova Scotia | Liverpool Join our Director of Policy, @duncanhames.bsky.social, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, @suehawley.bsky.social & @edhodgsoned.bsky.social to hear about big money's influence on our democracy.

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UK Anti-Corruption Coalition @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org · 28/09/2025

🚨 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

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LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Wealthy donors are increasingly fudning political campaigns, eroding the public’s trust in the political process. The Government has the opportunity to reverse that trend, argues Rose Whiffen of @anticorruption.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Political donation caps are needed to tackle deepening political inequality - British Politics and Policy at LSE

The Government has to limit the individual donation amounts allowed and cap campaign spending by political parties.

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UK Anti-Corruption Coalition @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org · 11/09/2025

🆕: Leaders from the anti-corruption space have written to the new Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP and new Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP, urging them to continue the UK’s leadership on illicit finance and commit to hosting the upcoming international summit. Read our letters below:

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🚨 NEW: My first long piece of policy research at @transparencyuk.bsky.social is out. *Unlocking ownership data* is a blueprint for ending financial secrecy in British offshore centres. 🔗 www.transparency.org.uk/publications...

transparency.org.uk

Unlocking Ownership Data

Guidelines for implementing meaningful access to beneficial ownership data in the UK's offshore financial centres

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Wondering what the new money laundering threats are in this new digital age? Read our @bcowdock.bsky.social's blog on the Government's new risk assessment here.

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The government's electoral finance changes are welcome—but it will still be far too easy to make foreign cash look British, and dirty money look clean. We need a cap on donations so that no billionaire can buy our politics. Sign the petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics

British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We are extremely concerned to see the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, where more than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups are warning of mass starvation.

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The quality of the food we put in our bodies should be the number one concern of a Government hoping to make us healthier, cut NHS waiting list, and restore productivity. But they’re doing the opposite. Wonder who’s been lobbying Labour.

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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Obvs everyone's disappointed they're not just hitting the "ban big donors" button - but this fits into my argument that they're not going to do that spontaneously, the useful work from the outside is trying to make an exit ramp through public funding www.mysociety.org/2025/07/22/e...

Election finance and donor caps
There are good foundations on improved electoral finance laws in the strategy. A key improvement is much stronger regulation of unincorporated associations: creating Know Your Donor requirements, and bringing the transparency thresholds into line with donations to parties and candidates. These transparency thresholds are too high (and have gotten higher), but this is an area that could (and should) be redressed through a statutory instrument at a later point.

What this strategy does not go near is the idea of donation caps to limit the power of large donors. As we explored on our Beyond Transparency report, a key blocker in this area is both the comparative lack of public funding of elections in the UK compared to European and Anglophone countries, and a belief that public opinion is an obstacle to a move in that direction (public funding is not popular on its own, but the status quo is also deeply unpopular).

In the spirit of “what is the work needed now to enable change by the end of the Parliament”, our key recommendation is that either government or civil society actors convene a citizens’ forum/assembly to further unblock this line of argument by creating a better understanding of how the public approach trade-offs in this area. There is good reason to believe that, while exactly what it looks like might be open to debate, increased levels of public funding are possible, enabling donor caps and restricting the uneven influence of wealth on elections.

In the absence of this, we are unlikely to make substantial progress within this parliament. We need well-developed answers to the “how are we going to pay for elections then?” question — and to be building those answers now.

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"It is unclear how the new financial penalties will be enforced and there are no changes to the rules on the revolving door, which urgently need strengthening" Our thoughts on the Government's new ethics announcements in the @financialtimes.com ⬇️ www.ft.com/content/0ff2...

ft.com

UK to introduce standards regime to fine ministers over post-office jobs breaches

‘Essentially toothless’ watchdog Acoba to be replaced by Ethics and Integrity Commission

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🎉Big win: the Government has just announced new transparency requirements for offshore trusts owning homes in the UK. There's still work to do to make that data accessible, but we're a step closer to knowing the real owners of UK properties 🔍🏠 www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Improving the effectiveness of the Money Laundering Regulations

This consultation considers changes to improve the Money Laundering Regulations while minimising burdens on legitimate customers.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/07/2025

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

londoncentric.media

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Government plans for a new Ethics Commission are welcome, but without laws that enshrines the existence of the Ministerial Code of Conduct, ministerial standards will still rely on the ‘good chaps’ theory of government. Our full statement 👇 www.transparency.org.uk/news/new-eth...

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New ethics commission welcome, but stronger rules - backed in law - are needed.

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UK Anti-Corruption Coalition @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org · 17/07/2025

Today, the Government released their long-awaited Strategy for Modern and Secure Elections. Out experts outline some of the key provisions in the White Paper and talk through what’s missing ⬇️

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

While you should be careful of reading too much into the over-reach of individual police officers, the suggestion that protesting at the Gaza war is “expressing an opinion or belief which is supportive of proscribed organisation” is quite something. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

theguardian.com

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It’s astounding that a sitting MP — and former Prime Minister — can simultaneously work as an advisor to a major bank. Roles like this carry at high risk of being used for (illegal) lobbying activity or of conflicting with parliamentary duties.

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Nearly every trail of dirty money leads to a shell company in the British Virgin Islands or another UK-linked financial centre. It’s time for the UK to end the corporate secrecy in its Overseas Territories that enables global financial crime.

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨BREAKING Multiple British Overseas Territories just missed their deadline to expose the £billions being stashed away in secret offshore accounts by super rich tax dodgers, corporates, and criminals. This is the third such deadline they’ve missed. 1/4 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com

British overseas territories miss final deadline to crack down on ‘dirty money’

Island havens accused of ‘defying the will of parliament’ after failing to initiate corporate transparency measures

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APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax @anticorruption-responsibletax.org · 01/07/2025

🚨 ⏰ ❌ Last night, the British Virgin Islands failed to meet its own deadline for opening up its corporate registers. 🖋️ ✉️ So our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social led a group of MPs in sending a letter to the BVI Premier this morning. This follows a letter we sent 5 months ago. 1/2

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Here's a nice and cringey video of me trying to explain what the heck is going on in the UK's offshore financial centres & what the Government should do about it. 🕵️‍♀️💵🌴

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

British offshore centres pledged over six years ago to reveal company owners — but still haven't delivered. These delays keep the UK’s backdoor open to dirty money and clash with David Lammy’s pledge to end the ‘golden age of money laundering’.

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If you're curious about how dark money makes it into the UK's political system & what to do about it, do read this explainer from my amazing colleague @rosewhiff.bsky.social 👇

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The BVI’s grey listing should have prompted more transparency efforts - but instead its proposal for corporate registers falls woefully short of international standards and previous commitments. Our statement 👉 www.transparency.org.uk/news/bvis-pl...

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The BVI’s plan for its company register ‘not compatible’ with global transparency efforts, warn anti-corruption campaigners

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Incredible impact from the investigation led by @bcowdock.bsky.social, @stevejgoodrich.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com, which identified millions worth of properties owned by allies of the former Bangladeshi PM. The NCA has now frozen most of these. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

theguardian.com

NCA freezes £170m of UK property belonging to ally of ousted Bangladesh leader

Saifuzzaman Chowdhury’s assets frozen as authorities in Dhaka investigate alleged corruption of former regime

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🎯 From the dirty money flowing into the UK's property market to Westminster's latest political scandals - we track it all so you don't have to. Get our expert analysis delivered straight to your inbox by joining our mailing list for all our latest updates. mailchi.mp/transparency...

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🆕 BLOG 🆕 It's estimated £11 billion was stolen from Bangladesh during Sheikh Hasina's rule. As interim Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus visits London, Britain must freeze stolen assets and return their missing wealth. Read more ⤵️ www.transparency.org.uk/news/returni...

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Returning Bangladesh’s missing billions

The UK’s role in supporting democratic transition

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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As Prof. Yunus wraps up his first day in the UK, questions around the return of assets suspected of being stolen by the former regime will loom. Our thoughts on what the UK could do to support asset recovery efforts & help Bangladesh ensure accountability. www.transparency.org.uk/news/returni...

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Returning Bangladesh’s missing billions

The UK’s role in supporting democratic transition

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