Ella Williams

Jul 25, 2024 | lexology.com | Jonathan Cotton |Ewan Brown |Ella Williams |Orla Fox

The Court of Appeal in R (World Uyghur Congress) v NCA has found that the NCA’s decision not to open a money laundering investigation into the trade of cotton in the UK from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China (XUAR), was unlawful. Implications for companiesImportantly, the judgment disagreed with a widely held interpretation of the money laundering offences in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).