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A new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, GI-TOC, published on Monday, warns that weak rule of law, organised crime and a large “grey” economy in Western Balkan countries – and the war in Ukraine – have allowed Russian Illicit Financial Flows, IFFs, to surge through the region and interfere in key decision making processes there.

“The Balkans’ strategic geographic position, acting as a gateway between Asia and Western Europe, coupled with an ecosystem of state capture, institutional weaknesses, organised crime and a rampant shadow economy, make the region particularly susceptible to IFFs,” Vanya Petrova, author of the report, told BIRN.

“This fact has actively been exploited by major players such as Russia, China and the UAE to influence decision-making in key markets and institutions,” she added.

The Kremlin has repeatedly taken advantage of its integration into the Western financial system to exploit governance gaps through the corrosive effect of illicit finance. This danger has taken on new and potentially greater dimensions with the onset of Russia’s war in Ukraine,” she says.

Global IFFs are estimated to be worth around 1-1.6 trillion US dollars annually, accounting for 3-5 per cent of world gross domestic product, GDP. However, according to Petrova, in the Western Balkans the figure is around 6 per cent of the region’s GDP.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, many sanctions were introduced, including a freeze by G7 countries of around 315 billion US dollars’ worth of Russian reserves held in Russia’s Central Bank.

Ways used by Russian elites to avoid sanctions include “laundering money through the purchase of real estate and business assets; utilizing professionals to open bank accounts, initiate bank transactions, transfer funds and create corporate structures that directly or indirectly support them; using complex ownership structures to avoid identification; and using third-party jurisdictions and false trade information to facilitate sensitive goods shipments to Russia”.

Russians avoid sanctions via the Western Balkans “with their combination of state and media capture, simmering ethnic divisions, slow pace of EU accession and the legacy of Russian cognitive bias”.

According to the report, since 2014, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Serbia have not followed EU sanctions against Russia, while both North Macedonia and Montenegro have provided so-called citizenship for investment to Russian citizens, despite criticism from the EU.

Albania has not yet followed through with a “fiscal amnesty” programme that would allow any Albanian or foreign citizen to deposit up to €2 million in non-declared money in the banking system, but has not scrapped the idea either.

Smuggling of people, weapons and cash have facilitated illegal activity since the start of the war in Ukraine. Smuggled cash is mainly concealed in cars or hidden among legitimate products in transport trucks or shipping containers.

According to the report, soon after the war started in 2022, Ukrainian refugees took undeclared cash with them to Europe; the wife of a former Ukrainian MP was caught at a border crossing for refugees with US$28 million and €1.3 million as she tried to enter Hungary.

In another case, a former Ukraine security service general, allegedly a Russian collaborator, was detained at the Serbia-North Macedonia border with €600 000 in cash, a large sum in US dollars, and diamonds and emeralds of unknown value.

Intensified use of covert channels for illegal money transfers into Albania exists as well.

Flows are often made indistinguishable by being mixed with gains in “cash-intensive businesses, such as restaurants, bars, beauty salons, petrol stations, private parking lots and taxi companies,” where this illegal money is laundered.

The report also explains that another form of IFF is fuel fraud. This often includes the evasion of custom tariffs by declaring lesses quantities of an oil product by selling fuel from ships on the Danube to fishers. A more recent trend, the report says, is the purchase of fuel at lower prices from Hungary and reselling it in Serbia.

The EU single market has a zero VAT policy for invoices between intermediaries, which has allowed VAT fraud to bloom. Petrova says that “in December 2022, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) uncovered what is believed to be the biggest VAT carousel fraud ever investigated in the EU, responsible for an estimated loss to EU taxpayers of €2.2 billion, including Bulgaria and Croatia, as well as third countries such as Albania and Serbia”.

“In general, this and trade misinvoicing remains the most prominent channel through which IFFs flow in and out of the Western Balkans,” Petrova writes. Trade misinvoicing includes fake legal transactions when no real business is taking place.

The report urges Europe to further decouple its economy from Russia, a network screening and sanctioning of Russian strategic investments in the Balkans, and to “prioritize the integration of the Balkans into the rollout of the newly designed Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) and coordinating their actions with US FinCEN and the financial intelligence institutions in each EU member state”.

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This is important discourse. I would add, though, that getting "rich" enough to get a permanent visa into the EU may be more attainable than some people realize. And the word "rich" here is misleading because people FAR poorer than the billionaire class can access these options.

Portuguese and Albania both have investor visas with lower thresholds, like around 275,000 Euros. Also, the way these visas work, you aren't "buying" the visa, you are investing the money in the country, and the money does earn you income. If you have the ability to run a business, and can invest that money in your own business and can run it profitably, you can then "work" managing the business, even though you can't legally work on these visas. So you're not giving up that money and you can use it to earn income while you live abroad.

Both these countries also have a path to citizenship if you're willing to learn the language and laws.

This is one of many reasons why it is important to build wealth both for yourself and those around you. It opens up a new option for you in the case that things go terribly wrong and you really want to leave.

A lot of people in the US have incomes high enough to reasonably attain this level of wealth, but they fail to do so because they're caught in a cycle of wasteful spending, buying new cars, driving cars a lot, buying a bigger home than they need, or blowing their money on things like high utility bills because they haven't audited and reduced their energy usage, blowing money on costly "entertainment", expensive travel, or buying low-quality, overpriced food. Median household income in the US is about 80k and Median income for individuals is about $40k.

My income has been below the median for a large portion of my adult life, yet I've amassed quite a fortune. I have seen people with WAAAY higher incomes, including people with no kids who are living in areas with low costs of living, struggle financially.

I recognize that not everyone can do this, and a lot of people have constraints that I wasn't working with. But I think these goals are more attainable than some people realize.

Like as a basic example, most 3-4BR houses on the east coast sell for more than the cost of an investor's visa in Portugal or Albania, and some of them sell for much more. This means if you save and pay off your house, you can then sell it and get more than enough to get one of these visas. No, it is probably not attainable for most people in their 20's or 30's, but it might be a much more attainable option for people in their 40's, 50's, or 60's.

i've been seeing a lot of americans saying - understandably - that they intend to pack up and move abroad. france, the uk, ireland, etc following the election results

i'm surprised by how many people don't understand that moving to another country is practically impossible unless you have a heritage claim (generally parents or grandparents who were born there)

you want to move to the UK? okay, well first you need a UK employer to sponsor you, and it needs to be a job that pays ~£40k/$50k a year at the very least. how you find that employer without first moving here to work in the UK is up to you, but you can't work or look for work while on a tourist visa which is how you will probably be entering the country without a working visa. you can come here to study, but when your study visa expires you'll have to leave. you could marry someone from here, but they'd need to be earning around ~£30k/$40k and you need to have been living together for two years which you also can't do without a visa

the same, with some differences, is true for literally everywhere else on the planet. you can't just move to another country.

my point is this: not only are our societies built around a system where your rights can be taken away if enough people vote against your interests, you also aren't allowed to leave.

unless, of course, you're rich. you can effectively buy a visa for $500k. so rich people can come and go as they please. but you can't.

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Montenegro is a small, but very mountainous country on the Adriatic coast. It's located between Albania and Croatia and opposite Puglia, the heel of Italy. Almost the size of Northern Ireland, and with a population of just over 600,000 citizens, Montenegro has had a long and agitated history – though it only became a sovereign country in 2006.

The nation has a total of 117 beaches along 294 kilometres of coastline. Its natural beauty is dramatic; the crystal clear waters of the Adriatic lapping the sandy beaches of the coast, and mountains dropping down in the UNESCO heritage Kotor Bay, make it a stunning summer destination with an average of 240 sunny days per year.

“Montenegro Citizenship by Investment Program currently has a limit of 2,000 applications”

Montenegro also welcomes investors who are interested in obtaining European Citizenship and passport through the Montenegrin Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP), which officially started taking applications in late 2019. Currently, the country's CIP has a limit of 2,000 applications.

To qualify for this new program, you are required to make a mixed investment of at least €350,000 in addition to government and professional fees.

Montenegro started EU accession discussions and is predicted to enter the European Union by 2025, which will significantly increase the benefits of holding Montenegrin citizenship and passport.

Top Reasons to Invest in Montenegro Citizenship:

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Montenegro Citizenship Investment Options:

A real estate investment of at least €250,000 in a government-approved project in underdeveloped regions of Montenegro. A nonrefundable contribution of €100,000 to the government development fund is also required.

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