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Reminds me of the Panama Papers, which exposed a huge international money laundering/tax evasion ring that no one seemed to care about because "everyone knows t
by some_random 1y ago
Reminds me of the Panama Papers, which exposed a huge international money laundering/tax evasion ring that no one seemed to care about because "everyone knows they're doing this stuff"
- ratelimitsteve 1y agoHey now, that's not fair. Someone cared enough to murder the journalist that published them with a car bomb.
- r2_pilot 1y agoThat allegedly would be Yorgen Fenech, via Alfred and George Degiorgio, Vincent Muscat, and as for the explosives, Robert Agius and Jamie Vella.
- alwayseasy 1y agoWell, in a few notorious cases the tax services cared and the voters cared.
- NoNotTheDuo 1y agoI think it's a combination of "everyone knows they're doing this stuff" and "the ones who could do something about it (i.e. charge/prosecute, change laws, etc.) are implicated". Much like the problem in the US Congress: they are not subject to insider trading laws, so they can make huge sums of money acting on non-public information. The only people that can change that are ... members of the US Congress.
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- lesuorac 1y agoSome countries cared more than others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Panama_Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Panama_Papers