There's another motivation that crops up: When you're talking about money on the scale we have flowing through the markets in places like Florida, New York City & London, *everyone* invested in the market ends up w/a stake in property inflation, even if not directly involved.
If you're speculating, or being paid rents in a market that can bear the cost, seeing property values go up 10, 20 or 50% in a short time is very enticing.
But it creates a bigger problem when you're looking at rooting it *out,* market collapse.
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People have been asking why, say, the UK government hasn't dropped the hammer faster & harder on Russia.
No one gains from a market crash except more speculators.
But that's why targeted sanctions are *freezing* oligarch/Russian-organized-crime assets.
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And why it was important to drop that hammer before all the others.
Oligarchs & their businesses so widely and deeply invested were a perfect target. #FinCEN just forced an enormous number of banks & other enablers to cut off de facto mob bosses.
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Which almost *never* happens with organized crime. If you take their money, they *own* you.
But they've hit an interesting tipping point.
If you're a bank, you cooperate w/#FinCEN investigations, or you cease to be a bank.
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If you can't be countersigned by US banks, you can't be countersigned by *anyone.*
But making the *banks* step forward on a global scale, obey the law & break with the oligarchs was always key.
Everyone knows their grip is finished, which is psychologically critical.
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But more importantly, there are bankers, lawyers, executives - all manner of corporate officers - who are now being forced to choose openly between their fiduciary duty to their stockholders (& obeying the law) & vassalhood to global organized crime.
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Whether they consciously processed it before, that's where they are now.
And given the scale of the crimes, & the degree to which everything is exposed w/hard evidence, everyone knows they either do the right thing, the *legal* thing, or they go into the abyss.
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We *start* with banks & other business partners having to freeze assets, reject investments, end relationships.
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We *move* to banks needing to know (or acknowledge) the “ultimate beneficial owners” of those LLCs used to anonymously own assets instead of pretending the real guy own 157 separate companies & actually lives & works out of a post office box.
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But we *end* with a ton of lawyers, boards of directors, key employees & other interested parties acknowledging their duty is to the company & thus the law, and not to tainted or flagrantly criminal executives.
Because the alternative is going down with them.
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So yes, we start with freezing and seizing *some* assets.
We move to freezing and seizing *all* of them.
But the *brief* pause before the end is an entirely different step.
I considered the flaw in cryptocurrency enabling the mass tracking/takedown of organized crime/Russian intel a modest side project for more than one reason. As we proceed, *why* will become more apparent.