Corruption: Sanctions

(asked on 7th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to extend the scope of the new Global Human Rights Sanctions regime to encompass individuals and organisations guilty of corruption.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 13th July 2020

On 6 July the UK Government established the Global Human Rights ('Magnitsky') sanctions regime by laying regulations in Parliament under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. This sanctions regime will give the UK a powerful new tool to hold to account those involved in serious human rights violations or abuses by stopping them from entering our country, channelling money through UK banks, or profiting from our economy. As the Foreign Secretary announced to the House on Monday, we are considering how a corruption regime could be added to this toolkit - potentially drawing on the UN Convention Against Corruption, and practice under the frameworks in jurisdictions like the US and Canada.

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