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by rootsudo 1453 days ago
This is a pretty common scenario in South America, e.g. Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and then you can look over at some African reasons and even Asia nowadays too - e.g. Sri Lanka.

You can also go as far as even the USA does this on money it deems "did a crime" or was related, or just in the proximity because the law enforcement officer said so. civil forfeiture.