Overseas anti-corruption unit
On 22 June 2006 Tony Blair announced new measures to tackle
international corruption, identified as one of the priorities at
the Gleneagles G8 summit.
Following the G8 announcement the Government established a new
dedicated team for investigating international corruption,
including money laundering in the UK by corrupt politicians from
developing countries, and bribery by UK businesses overseas.
In October 2008 Gordon Brown appointed Jack
Straw, Secretary of State for Justice to continue
John
Hutton's work as anti-corruption champion and a
new cross-Whitehall anti-corruption action plan was published
in Spring 2008.
The new taskforce includes officers from the City of London Police
and the Metropolitan Police Service.