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by shliachtx 2202 days ago
> Suppose ~Tim Cook’s daughter~ the CFO of Apple was arrested in Thailand for Apple’s alleged breach of China’s sanctions against Saudi Arabia.

The CFO of the company is responsible for the company's financial behavior, being the daughter of the founder does not exempt her.
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xster 2202 days ago
The CFOs of Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, JP Morgan Chase, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS (ABN Amro), Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans-Pacific National Bank, Standard Chartered, and Wells Fargo enter the chat.

https://archive.is/kyKGf

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shliachtx 2202 days ago
That may very well be the case, it does appear to be selective enforcement - but the comment I was responding to made it sound as if the person arrested was merely related to the CEO, when she is in fact the CFO.
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dirtyid 2202 days ago
US DoJ initiative to extradite Chinese nationals month before her arrest.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-jeff-ses...

There's a reason some US analysts compared her arrest and escalation reminiscent of coldwar kidnapping. It's easy to engineer legal rationales to justify any action, that's why IR operates more on norms than rule of law. Pair this with China being the first "great power competitor that is not Caucasian" and it's not hard to see why other banks just get fines. Hint: same reason some group get fines for drug violations while other goto jail.

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