The UK government has announced plans to create the first-ever International Anti-Corruption Co-ordination Centre. The body, which the UK will establish in partnership with the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Singapore and Switzerland, will be based in London. Experts, including those from the UK National Crime Agency and Interpol, will provide international co-ordination and support to help local law enforcement agencies and prosecutors work together across borders to "investigate and punish corrupt elites and recover stolen assets."
Speaking at the first Global Anti-Corruption Summit, outgoing UK Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP said: "we will do everything possible to punish the corrupt and support those affected by corruption. We know that the web of corruption is global, so we will create an international anti-corruption coordination center to help police and prosecutors work together to pursue the corrupt across borders, joining the dots to identify and prosecute the corrupt and seize their assets, including by using the data made available by registers of beneficial ownership."
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