Apart from a few Russian billionaires, about 25 people in the UK (£61K in total) have had their bank accounts "frozen" - it seems mostly Jihadist terrorists who

Apart from a few Russian billionaires, about 25 people in the UK (£61K in total) have had their bank accounts "frozen" - it seems mostly Jihadist terrorists who have left the country to fight with ISIS: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2994515/Only-25-British-terror-suspects-bank-accounts-frozen-despite-600-UK-jihadists-travelling-fight-ISIS-report-reveals.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2994515/Only-25-Bri... If you were found guilty and sentenced for money laundering, funding terrorism, or political corruption etc, I would guess many banks would not want you to have an account with them. There's a list of "sanctioned" people/organisation - who would probably find it hard to open a bank account in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-list https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-...