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by trissylegs 799 days ago
Start? Uae is a place known for storing and moving shady money. Very few extradition treatys.
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> Very few extradition treatys.

Which is also excellent not just for stealing, but also for murder. Half a year ago a German-born Pole killed a family in a car crash and run away to UAE.[0] They tried to extradit him but without success.

[0] https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/accidents/suspected-fa...

That article says he was trying to flee to the Dominican Republic, not the UAE.
The article is from October - in the meantime it turned out he actually fled to UAE. The Polish government tried to extradite him but failed. There are many sources on that, unfortunately in Polish only.
I didn't know that, but I guess that's not too surprising.
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