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By Sue Hawley Over the past year something extraordinary has happened. The governments of countries in the Global South where British multinationals paid bribes and faced penalties in the UK have started demanding a fairer share of the huge criminal fines that have up to now gone to the UK Treasury. Since 2014 the Serious Fraud Office has brought in £1.8bn in financial penalties to the UK Treasury relating to foreign bribery cases following criminal investigations into 15 companies. In just four of these cases did any money – £16.2m in total – make it back to the people of the countries harmed…