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Why do people flee to Dubai? It's my understanding they almost never naturalize non-arabs, so any fugitive would forever be on perilous grounds.

Honestly the dude could be in a boat god knows where in the Caribbean, slipping in and out of international waters to the point where no one knows where he is.

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Dubai is a good stopping off point before you disappear forever. They are very happy to take bribes from rich people and they will let you set up your infrastructure so that you can go off grid.

85% of Dubai is immigrants. Not all fraudsters are high profile enough to spend millions of dollars in extradition proceedings on especially when you'll just catch them at an airport eventually.

They take bribes in the form of local business investment. If you can dump a few hundo k a year into the economy, they’ll let you get away with almost anything

It's slowly beginning to change. They used to fight but they don't care as much about non Emiratis anymore. Even less diplomatically important countries like South Africa have gotten extraditions. Look at Ramon Abbas ("Ray Hushpuppi"). Spent much of his BEC millions in Dubai and still got shipped off to America.

He was running scams out of Dubai. Big bad look for them. If you take your winnings and lay low, they’ll probably leave you alone.

Dubai is one of the few counties that lacks an extradition treaty with the US[1] and has a high standard of living.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...

What happens if the US cancels his passport? It's my understanding Cody Wilson was kicked out of Taiwan, which lacked formal extradition agreement, by cancelling his passport which nullified his legal presence in the country.

If SBF is smart he has two or three passports like Peter Thiel and Justin Sun.

I mean, while functionally true, the lived experience for a Dubai millionaire versus a typical immigrant labourer. They can afford to make expenditures to make their life easier. Which is good - it increases the chance they eventually slip up.

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