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<p>The Government’s Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2022 sets out commitments to work
with other countries to tackle corruption. A number of these are particularly relevant
to developing countries – where corruption can result in money laundering via opaque
financial centres.</p><p>In July 2019 HMG also published its asset recovery action
plan which sets out steps we are taking to deliver a whole system approach to depriving
criminals of their criminal assets We have also brought in additional civil powers
to strengthen the asset recovery regime, such as Unexplained Wealth Orders to require
a person to explain the sources of their wealth and Account Freezing Orders, which
allow the freezing of assets while investigation is ongoing.</p>
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