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maxrandb

(15,364 posts) Sat Feb 26, 2022, 08:20 PM Feb 2022

It's no accident that it is "difficult" to find the financial assets of a war criminal

It's by design.

The wealthy, the politicians they own, corporate lobbyists, lawyers and bankers make hiding Putin's, and other billionaires assets all perfectly legal.

NPR interviewed an editor for Forbes, and she explained how it's "all so difficult" to identify who owns what.

Is anyone surprised by this?

This seems like it would be a slam dunk for a Congressman with courage.

It can be fixed by legislation.

We can ensure that the assets of the wealthy can be easily identified.

Seems like that would come in handy about now.

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It's no accident that it is "difficult" to find the financial assets of a war criminal (Original Post) maxrandb Feb 2022 OP

Great point! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #1

Yeah, it seems like half of the banking sector is in the business of hiding assets... Wounded Bear Feb 2022 #2

Yeah, but then American masters' offshore accounts would be vulnerable. 3Hotdogs Feb 2022 #3

That said... NQAS Feb 2022 #4

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)

1. Great point!

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Sat Feb 26, 2022, 08:21 PM

Feb 2022

Absolutely!

Wounded Bear

(58,737 posts)

2. Yeah, it seems like half of the banking sector is in the business of hiding assets...

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Sat Feb 26, 2022, 08:22 PM

Feb 2022

3Hotdogs

(12,439 posts)

3. Yeah, but then American masters' offshore accounts would be vulnerable.

Reply to maxrandb (Original post)

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 08:28 PM

Feb 2022

We can't have that, right?

NQAS

(10,749 posts)

4. That said...

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Sat Feb 26, 2022, 08:34 PM

Feb 2022

I sure would like the effort to be made to find Russian funding of fox and the other rw outlets.
With fox it would be stock ownership, I suppose.

A whistleblower or two would be nice.

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