It's also usually just one more call to get the stolen assets frozen. If it's already "gone", it's not really "gone" and can be clawed back. Such headlines are

It's also usually just one more call to get the stolen assets frozen. If it's already "gone", it's not really "gone" and can be clawed back. Such headlines are usually followed, a few weeks later by an headline reading not unlike this: "Three indicted in scheme involving deep-fake to steal $25m".