Introduce legislation to disallow criminals from the commonwealth into the UK

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

The commonwealth countries are plagued by public officials who are corrupt and misuse public funds to amass large private estates. A lot of these usurped public funds end up in the UK through offshore companies acquiring UK housing assets. Any one convicted of such should not be allowed in Britain.

Corrupt public officials from commonwealth countries like Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Sudan etc. often usurp public funds from their country of origin and then use illegal money laundering techniques to bring this illegal wealth to the UK. Some of these crooks have been convicted in their home countries but are still allowed in to the UK. This phenomenon is widely perceived to be a means by which the UK continues its exploitation of its previous colonies (tacit collusion) and must STOP.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The UK already has laws in place which allow the Government to impose sanctions, including a ban on entering the country, on foreign nationals who have been found guilty of corruption or human rights abuses. You can find out more about this sanctions regime here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-first-sanctions-under-new-global-human-rights-regime and here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8374/.

It is therefore not clear what else you'd like the Government to do.

If there was a specific change you'd like the Government to make to these laws, you could start a petition about that.

Timeline

9 Dec 2020	Petition opened for signatures
16 Dec 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 16 Dec 2020

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