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The EU isn’t in the business of arresting the family members of criminals. We leave that to the Lukashenkos of the world.

• baybal2 5y ago
  You can arrest their bank accounts, and have their children living in the West left penniless on the streets. This is my biggest outrage with Western demeanor. They will sanction a country to the neck, babble strong, and mighty on TV about commitment to anti-corruption, and then...... they invite all these rotten part-time billionaire government employees, and their spawn to hide their stolen money, and live happy, and merrily in their Mayfairs, and Rivieras, spending their honestly stolen billions.
  • lostlogin 5y ago
    But doing anything else might result in damage to businesses, to the economy and to growth. Morals and ethics can be damned if they result in monetary loss. This is might be too cynical, but it characterises my country’s relationships with totalitarianism.
    • chopin 5y ago
      Less cynically it could also result in damage to due process. We shouldn't give up that lightly.
      • baybal2 5y ago
        It's indeed a very undue process. The West had 30 years since the end of the cold war to "process," these criminals and roll them into cans. Instead not only there is not only no action, but the Cleptoville in London gets bigger with each year, and soon London will straight become a district of Moscow.