On June 26, 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office announced that it joined the International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (“IACCC”). The IACCC, which is based within the National Crime Agency (“NCA”), enables specialist law enforcement officers from agencies around the world to combine efforts to fight cross-border corruption, including investigations of grand corruption involving politically exposed persons. According to the SFO, the membership increases its intelligence and evidence gathering capabilities of parties suspected of overseas corruption while allowing the Office to maintain full control of the investigation. The membership comes just months after the SFO formed an a tri-national taskforce with authorities in France and Switzerland in March 2025, in an effort to strengthen existing ties and jointly tackle the threat of international bribery and corruption.
Rob Jones, Director General of Operations of the NCA, welcomed the SFO’s membership in the IACCC. Jones also reported that, since the IACCC was launched in 2017, the group has “helped identify over £1.8 billion of suspected stolen assets, supported the freezing of nearly half of those assets in various global jurisdictions, and helped with the arrest and charging of a significant number of suspects involved in high profile investigations in over 40 separate countries.”