PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(7 April 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions of companies for money laundering there were under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in the last five years.

Asked by:
Lloyd Hatton (Labour)

The number of companies and public bodies prosecuted for the principal offence of money laundering under POCA 2002 has fluctuated between 1 and 5 each year between the year ending June 2019 and the year ending June 2024.

The number of companies and public bodies convicted for the principal offence of money laundering under POCA 2002 has fluctuated between 0 and 5 each year between the year ending June 2019 and the year ending June 2024.

Money laundering prosecutions and convictions of companies and public bodies under POCA and Money Laundering Regulation’s 2007 (principal offence)
Year ending June 2019	Year ending June 2020	Year ending June 2021	Year ending June 2022	Year ending June 2023	Year ending June 2024
Proceeded against	1	5	5	3	5	1
Convicted	5	1	0	3	1	2

To note, a small proportion of defendant types are also recorded as ‘unknown’ each year (not included in figures in table).

Source: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2024 - GOV.UK

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