Spotlight on Corruption publishes the NCA’s response to its letter highlighting problems with the UK’s political finance enforcement regime

The letter suggests that the weaknesses in criminal enforcement of electoral finance laws may result, at least from the NCA’s perspective, from problems with those laws. The NCA said its decision to investigate depends on whether it can prove a crime has been committed as defined by the law. The NCA highlighted that the law, “…does not prohibit funds originating from overseas to be used in donations as long as the donating entity is eligible to donate in the UK.”…