Unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) enable authorities to take assets from those suspected of wrongdoing. A meticulous, astute response to a UWO will enhance your chances of keeping what is yours.
News and media publications related to Unexplained Wealth Orders, the latest weapon available to the authorities that seek to take assets from those they suspect of wrongdoing.
Azizur Rahman
30 January 2025
With the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) having obtained its first unexplained wealth order (UWO), The Times asked Rahman Ravelli for their assessment of it.
7 August 2024
Rahman Ravelli’s Francesca Cassidy-Taylor comments on the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) recent achievement in its long-running and high-profile investigation of Zamira Hajiyeva, the wife of jailed Aze...
Nicola Sharp
2 March 2023
With unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) not being used anywhere near as much as their supporters hoped, Nicola Sharp wrote about the reasons why.
Nicola Sharp
2 August 2022
With the government’s Foreign Affairs Committee having described unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) as “spectacularly unsuccessful’’, Nicola Sharp assessed the problems surrounding the orders.
Azizur Rahman
21 June 2022
Financier Worldwide asked Rahman Ravelli for their thoughts about the newly-introduced Economic Crime Transparency and Enforcement Act.
Azizur Rahman
9 March 2022
With the UK government set to make changes to the unexplained wealth order (UWO) regime due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Aziz Rahman wrote an assessment of the approach.
Nicola Sharp
13 May 2021
Nicola Sharp argues that unexplained wealth orders have failed to live up to the hype.
Nicola Sharp
16 April 2021
As it is four years since unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) were introduced in the Criminal Finances Act 2017, Rahman Ravelli’s Nicola Sharp assessed their impact so far.
Nicola Sharp
20 October 2020
Rahman Ravelli’s Nicola Sharp wrote an assessment of unexplained wealth orders and their use by the National Crime Agency.
Nicola Sharp
23 July 2020
As parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee highlighted the consequences of laundered Russian money flowing into the UK, Thomson Reuters’ Regulatory Intelligence sought the views of financial ...