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How many people listed in the Panama papers have been arrested? Their assets seized? Fines? Zero. London's "the city" is pretty much one giant laundering operat
by fleddr 4y ago
How many people listed in the Panama papers have been arrested? Their assets seized? Fines? Zero. London's "the city" is pretty much one giant laundering operation for Saudi and Russian dirty money.
Money laundering, monetary privacy, wealth obfuscation is perfectly fine. It only becomes an issue when it becomes accessible to us simple minded folks too. The urgency to stop this tech really tells the tale.
Or in other words, laundering "doesn't scale".
- joe_the_user 4y agoSure, I've even heard speculation that the leak of the various money-laundering documents involve an effort to monopolize laundering to a even small group. That's as maybe but no kind of money laundering should have our sympathy. Most money laundering does damage - the kind that isn't for directly illegal activities often involves local corrupt exploiting their control of local resources (Iran, a major oil producer, burning 4% it's oil for bitcoins to escape sanctions, for example).
- tokai 4y agoDid you look it up or are you just spouting what ever you can dream up to fit your argument? Lots of people all over the world have been arrested based on the panama papers.
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agopretty sure the only people who suffered where the execs running the company, losing their yearly bonus,...and only because they embarrassed their overlords. "In March 2018, Mossack Fonseca announced that it would cease operations at the end of March due to "irreversible damage" to their image as a direct result of the Panama Papers"
- Kbelicius 4y ago"In October 2020, German authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the two founders of the law firm at the core of the tax evasion scandal exposed by the Panama Papers. Cologne prosecutors are seeking German-born Jürgen Mossack and Panamanian Ramón Fonseca on charges of accessory to tax evasion and forming a criminal organization"
- bendbro 4y agoMay I ask your nationality, party preference, any controversial political positions you hold and any mental health conditions you have? I'd like to validate my stereotypes.
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