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Comment by dzhiurgis | Hacker News Reader

Really hope US and EU start arresting family members ASAP of everyone from this leak. This is a treasure for all sort of sanctions.

Edit: just noticed their logo is Lithuanian has coat of arms (vytis). Kinda weird to disclose your ethnicity, but Lithuania is doing a lot to support Belarus, especially amid Belarus weaponising migrants. Hope details of that going to be public soon.

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The EU isn’t in the business of arresting the family members of criminals. We leave that to the Lukashenkos of the world.

You can arrest their bank accounts, and have their children living in the West left penniless on the streets.

This is my biggest outrage with Western demeanor.

They will sanction a country to the neck, babble strong, and mighty on TV about commitment to anti-corruption, and then...... they invite all these rotten part-time billionaire government employees, and their spawn to hide their stolen money, and live happy, and merrily in their Mayfairs, and Rivieras, spending their honestly stolen billions.

But doing anything else might result in damage to businesses, to the economy and to growth. Morals and ethics can be damned if they result in monetary loss.

This is might be too cynical, but it characterises my country’s relationships with totalitarianism.

Less cynically it could also result in damage to due process. We shouldn't give up that lightly.

It's indeed a very undue process. The West had 30 years since the end of the cold war to "process," these criminals and roll them into cans.

Instead not only there is not only no action, but the Cleptoville in London gets bigger with each year, and soon London will straight become a district of Moscow.

It's actually a Pahonia coat of arms, traditional national emblem of Belarus, and it's officially established by the Third Statute of Lithuania in 1588. All the laws and statutes of the Great Duchy of Lithuania are written using the Old Belarusian language and this language is claimed by a statute to be the language of a titular nation. In a present day Belarus we do not consider Lithuania to be a successor of the Great Duchy, neither culturally, nor ethnically.

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