My real question, what about nobody ever will make investigations and publications:
Who and why and why exactly that time did go after them?
It was likely because 1 of the higher level client of MF, and 1 of the usual suspect alphabet agency started the hole thing. However, it was never clarified, and probably never will be.
There are dozens of similar ones, or even worse and nobody cares. This one, for some reason, was "important".
But for who and why?
That’s a good question, but it doesn’t mean that this didn’t deserve to get completely figured out!
Actually, I think, they don't want that either.
There would had to be some targeted people, group, who they wanted to expose, and some, who they didn't, even wanted to protect.
Anyway, back then I was working in whole-sales in Eastern-Europe, plenty people used it. Nobody disturbed (and i mean nobody, no pol droids, no gov droids), the goods sold by thousands of containers fullfilled by ski accessories, bicycles, shampoos, plactic goods etc., etc. to Panama registered 'corporations'. 😂 (Chinese are something next level in that field anyway, these guys were amateur compared to them.)
I was very young, didn't have much clue about reality, and even asked the 'why&how' from one of them after I get him know a bit. (most of them ran small business)
He was pretty straight forward, more or less still remember for his answer:
Started with, it's 'legal'. He is still poor (not compared to subsistence slaves), he doesn't have the money to finance the more expensive, same ones, what big corps with gov 'leaders' in pocket can. And if you want something from life, don't want to be just another lifetime slave in the same place and earn money for everybody else, except yourself, then you must watch the 'small-gates' what the top maffia created for themselves and follow, use the same, keep moving on. + If he doesn't do it, he just pay it in taxes, what pol droids steal away hand-in-hand with oligarchs and big corps, and he'll be bankrupted very fast.
And plenty from these Panama guys were similar. Back then, I made few searches randomly for mentioned names. For noname people. 9 out 10 was similar. They ran small businesses.