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It's not hard to believe that a small country can have a vastly oversized economy due to finance - legal or illegal.
by vintermann 1y ago
It's not hard to believe that a small country can have a vastly oversized economy due to finance - legal or illegal.
- immibis 1y agoAn example of a legal one is the UK
- phatfish 1y agoUnsurprisingly the UK was enabling this guy before he got too much heat. From a BBC article: "The UK government says it has frozen assets owned by his network, including 19 properties in London - one of which is worth nearly £100m ($133m)."
- lurk2 1y ago> the UK was enabling this guy before he got too much heat. How does this quote indicate that the UK was enabling Zhi?
- Jolter 1y agoPresumably GP means enabling by not seizing him or his assets earlier? Which I find to be a bit of a stretch.
- vintermann 1y agoThe UK may not have been enabling this guy in particular, but he's not exactly the only one who has been stashing ill-gotten gains in London real estate. Apparently crooks still think it's a great deal despite some of them getting it seized once in a while.
- jowea 1y agoOr Ireland with the nominally headquartered multinationals there.
- jandrese 1y agoThis thread is making Cambodia sound like an oversized Cayman Islands.