The UK will \u201cturn the tide\u201d on illicit finance at a landmark anti-corruption summit in London next year, the foreign secretary has said.<\/p>\n
Yvette Cooper<\/a> confirmed on Sunday that Britain would host the summit at Lancaster House on June 23-24, 2026.The summit, first promised by her predecessor David Lammy<\/a>, will bring together governments, businesses and campaigners to agree \u201ctough international action\u201d to combat corrupt practices.<\/p>\n Cooper said the summit would target illicit gold used to fund the war in Ukraine; property used by criminals to hide their cash; and cryptocurrency, which she said was \u201cincreasingly exploited by people smugglers\u201d.<\/p>\n Arguing that \u201cdirty money fuels crime on the streets of the UK and drives conflict and instability overseas\u201d, she said the government was \u201ccommitted to turning the tide\u201d on corruption.<\/p>\n The summit will take place 10 years since former prime minister David Cameron<\/a> hosted a similar meeting in May 2016.Campaigners praised that summit for the strength of the commitments offered by the international community, but called for more action in other areas, including in Britain\u2019s<\/a> Overseas Territories and among professional services firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK will \u201cturn the tide\u201d on illicit finance at a landmark anti-corruption summit in London next year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[192688,192689,748,31212,23522,6217,393,2520,4884,28296,257,68212,1144,53202,192687,712,192686,16,657,15,1764,5113],"class_list":{"0":"post-618691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-anti-corruption-data-collective","11":"tag-baroness-margaret-hodge","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-cryptocurrency","14":"tag-david-cameron","15":"tag-david-lammy","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-foreign-office","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-lancaster-house","20":"tag-london","21":"tag-national-crime-agency","22":"tag-northern-ireland","23":"tag-organised-crime-and-corruption-reporting-project","24":"tag-overseas-territories","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-transparency-international","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-wales","31":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115680352971216079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}