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It's criminal to evade sanctions for a reason. As a Russian can tell you that oligarchs being able to convert dirty money into cool western lifestyle is probabl
by throwaway290 4y ago
It's criminal to evade sanctions for a reason. As a Russian can tell you that oligarchs being able to convert dirty money into cool western lifestyle is probably the what keeps this thieving and oppressing regime going. If they were cut off from this, the regime would fall because very few insane people would associate with Putin for reasons other than personal gain. But they are not cut off cold turkey and they still have avenues where sanctions are not applied, like crypto, so they have time to sort things out.
Note that it's not illegal to provide humanitarian aid or help in other ways. It's not even illegal AFAIK to transact, as long as you make sure you are not involving anything or anyone sanctioned. (But I'm not a lawyer)
- voldacar 4y agoThe reason is that the government doesn't like it. Not particularly mystical or significant if you ask me.
- throwaway290 4y agoThe reason sanctions are evaded is that criminals don't like them. FTFY
- Semaphor 4y ago> It's criminal to evade sanctions for a reason. It’s criminal to evade them as a citizen of the sanctioning country. That might be a lot of countries, it might also be only the world police USA.
- seanhunter 4y agoObviously it depends on the sanction in question, but many/most sanctions are multilateral and I don’t know of any which are currently US-only. The UN security council for example is considered to have a mandate to decree international sanctions against a nation. Here is the UN’s sanctions info https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/information https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/information
- Semaphor 4y agoThis has a list of non-UN-mandated sanctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran