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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[+] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works -10 points 1 week ago (2 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.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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.