Why is the UK’s Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) eyeing broader economic crimes? Sanctions expert Anna Bradshaw queries the move
Monday 8 February, 2021
Giles Thomson, who recently joined OFSI as director, says his expanded role will “ build stronger links between sanctions and broader economic crime work”. Peters & Peters partner Anna Bradshaw warns that “Financial sanctions are a political tool, and their enforcement therefore has a political dimension that economic-crime enforcement does not have. There has to be a recognition that different goals are being pursued.” Read more