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Ukraine searches 100 illegal vape shops in clampdown on shadow economy (kyivindependent.com)
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Ukraine’s business police, known as the Bureau of Economic Security, searched and confiscated products from e-cigarette sellers in 12 regions, including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zakarpattia, Pavlo Buzdyhan, the bureau’s deputy director, told the Kyiv Independent.

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[–] 23 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You do realize, despite them being at war, the nation still operates. There are still citizens, consumers, and trade. It's not like every sector of government is all-consumed by war and ignores all of their other operations and services.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Given both operational losses and total cost, one would think they would spend their extremely limited resources enforcing things other than minor laws that are effectively victimless.

    I'm not saying the entire country should have a war time economy and focus on winning their dispute, but I am saying their opponent is doing that and I'd rather not suffer the effects of Russia winning because Ukraine is spending what would be massive resources investigating and enforcing victimless crimes across most regions in the country.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The core of this is anti money laundering and that, in many cases, is not victimless. You also point out that they have limited resources, but try to roll into an argument about how trying to preserve those resources is pointless?

    Also, law enforcement isn't exactly a "massive resource" spend when the cost of that should already be baked into yearly country expenses. The only real expenditure is time for investigation. If this really is tied into luxury construction money laundering, we could he talking about hundreds of millions of dollars saved or recovered by only paying the salaries of a few law enforcement officers that will need to work anyway.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure Ukrainian authorities know what money laundering is if they think a commodity business could be doing money laundering.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I don't think you know how nicotine/tobacco products are used for money laundering. Just Google it.

    You seem hell bent on trying to prove these are pointless raids. Maybe they are, but your arguments are just bad.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Theybhave a 3:1 kill ratio and have stalled the "second best military in the world". Things look quite good for Ukraine rn

    Also this brings in taxes which helps both the war effort and society.

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