Time to punish countries that harbour fugitives

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
Time to punish countries that harbour fugitives

Judging by news reports in recent years, Dubai appears to be the preferred safe haven for wealthy fugitives from justice.

Among them is a prominent Thai citizen. It also harbours a Pakistani who stole $10 million from the account of a widow in my homeland but can’t be extradited and continues to thrive, mocking my country’s police by posting photos online of his luxury life.
Another prominent Thai sought shelter in the “law and order state” of Singapore straight after his alleged crime. Pictures published this week show him travelling freely around the world. Meanwhile Thai authorities have issued neither an arrest warrant nor extradition demands, even though the man fled five years ago and has offered a string of poor excuses via lawyers for not turning up in court.
When is the international community – especially Western powers that sanction other countries when it suits their politics and economies – going to impose penalties on tax havens where the elite stack their wealth and other havens where criminals stack themselves? 
A North Country Man 
 

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