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by 908B64B197 1752 days ago
I would advise against this.

If a bank won't let you wire money there, I don't think regulators will look kindly on you using crypto to bypass that. So good luck raising money or selling the company with what looks like illegal activity in your accounting books. And that's if the contractor you're hiring is "clean". If he's found to have ties to an organization on a watch list, you're looking at federal charges.

Now, to be completely honest, I have reasons to be skeptical of a lot of asylum claims from Afghanistan, seeing how the ANA just flat out abandoned their bases and surrendered without a fight in mere weeks. I'm wondering if a lot of these able bodies young "refugees" men had dual allegiances the whole time, seeing how they welcomed the Taliban with open arms as soon as the (US taxpayer funded) checks stopped coming in.

It sounds like these asylum claims would be a perfect opportunity to hustle western passports. Wouldn't be the first time [0]

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/migration-fake-syrian-passpo...