You're thinking of a known criminal holding ill-gotten funds, whom his new country would like to prosecute as much as the old one. Think instead of an ordinary

You're thinking of a known criminal holding ill-gotten funds, whom his new country would like to prosecute as much as the old one. Think instead of an ordinary person fleeing a disintegrating economy and/or an oppressive regime, who had stashed away some e-cash for such an eventuality.