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> Nearly every country in the world follows a very similar set of rules regarding jurisdiction. Actually, no. As a general principle, countries do not pass/enf
by crazygringo 2y ago
> Nearly every country in the world follows a very similar set of rules regarding jurisdiction.
Actually, no. As a general principle, countries do not pass/enforce laws regarding potential criminal activity that their citizens commit against citizens of other countries while in those other countries.
To take an extreme example, if you murder a citizen of a foreign country while in that foreign country, your home country is generally not going to charge you with murder. If you come back home, they may extradite you to that foreign country at that country's request, since you broke the law there. But because you were in the foreign country and the victim was also foreign, it's not within domestic jurisdiction.
Laws against bribes paid abroad break this rule. And in 2022 it was found that only two countries in the world actively enforce bribery outside their borders -- the US and Switzerland [1].
So no, your assertion that this is how nearly every country in the world operates, is completely false. It's actually a gigantic exception.
(Things operate differently for military forces, war crimes, etc. But we're talking about regular civilian/corporate law here.)
[1] https://us.transparency.org/news/exporting-corruption-2022-statement/ https://us.transparency.org/news/exporting-corruption-2022-s...