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Subject: Re: Why can't we make criminals pay? Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:21 +1100

TomTom wrote:
> Sylvia Else wrote:
>> Krudd the Dudd wrote:
>>> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:46:36 +1100, somebody claiming to be TomTom
>>> (tt@invalid.com) sprouted forth in gcbtrl$d5n$1@news.albasani.net:-
>>>
>>>>> But then you'll discover the real problem - he probably has no
>>>>> money to give you anyway, even if the court awards damages.
>>>> That's the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> Or if a company, institutes a scam administration; if a person a
>>> scam bankruptcy.
>>
>> It's quite likely that a crim subject to an award for damages would
>> declare bankruptcy if pressed for payment. I doubt it would be a scam
>> - the crim genuninely wouldn't have the money.
>
> Well, only likely if the crim had something, but not enough to pay
> everything. Bur any crim worth his or her salt would have that
> something put well away from prying eyes. It's quite simple and normal,
> even in the non-crim world.

Even if the crim geuninely had nothing, he/she'd declare bankruptcy to
extinguish the debt. And if there is anything stashed away, it would
only be necessary to launder it to make it appear to have been obtained
after the discharge from bankruptcy.

Sylvia.