This doesn't really seem like a convincing counterargument. These people are criminals who should have their day in court, but I don't understand how that is s

This doesn't really seem like a convincing counterargument. These people are criminals who should have their day in court, but I don't understand how that is supposed to justify financial mass surveillance. Instead of complaining about money laundering, why doesn't the EU send their goons to render Putin & co and put them on trial if they're so bad? (Oh yeah, it's because that's not something they actually want to do) E: HN throttled my reply to belter so I'll just put it here. Corrupt oligarchs wasting their money on London real estate still injects money into the economy, and is likely to transfer those "dirty" funds to developers owned by more pleasant people than Lukashenko. Those people will presumably use them for nicer purposes than propping up their dictatorships.