Fugitives from other serious crimes cut straight down to the very strictly organised law-and-order state – Singapore – but obviously strict only for the ordinaries. Because now we see a not-so-ordinary fugitive from Thailand walking and driving freely down there (and in the rest of the world). No extradition requests from Thailand? Or is it not strict now to the fugitive in the spotlight only because he is one of the same kind in many ways and may be even related to the elite in Singapore? And again we got a passport story to chew on – is this young fugitive still allowed to keep his Thai passport to fly and enjoy the world or does he now travel the world with a brand new Singaporean passport? And we all remember the passport-story from the banana republic Montenegro where you can buy everything if you have enough money.
When are countries, especially the western world who sanction countries around the world when it suits their politics and gains, going to impose sanctions on tax havens where the elite stack their wealth and other havens where other kinds of criminals stack themselves?
The way the long arm of the law now works in practice around the world suggests that most countries consider a bread-crime one of the worst crimes while bigger crimes are diluted and they just fade away.
A North Country Man
Chon Buri