The infatuation on the social media among Ethiopians at the arrest of some senior and high ranking EPRDF officials or their family members seem to miss one big hidden fact about these fake arrests and fake legal cases.
Past experiences of EPRDF/TPLF alleged corruption arrests and charges indicate that these charges and arrests are actually meant to legitimize the illegally gained money and resources through nominal legal processes that will not dispossess the illegally gained wealth from these corrupt officials or their successors but prevent future recharging and re-arrests of these corrupt officials or dispossesses these illegally gained wealth from their successors in the name preventing double jeopardy.
Double jeopardy is a legal theory that prevents the prosecution of a person twice for the same offense. The wisdom of the double corruption lies here. The corruption of the corruption arrests and charges are exactly meant to help the corrupt officials and their successors by arresting and charging them with nominal crimes and delivering nominal decisions that we all know will not be meaningfully investigated and seriously litigated against these big cats.
So, the winners in these carefully orchestrated dramas are only the government and the corrupt big cats. The government is a big time winner because it claims it is serious about corruption by pointing to the arrest and charging of these big cats to the naïve public.
The second big time winners are the corrupt big cats themselves. The big cats will legalize and pass on dispute and litigation free wealth to their successors by being nominally arrested and charged for few months or years but preventing future charge or dispossession of this unimaginable wealth that they or their successors will not get in thousand years in a legitimate way.
Think about the five individuals who shared among themselves over 75 Billion Sugar Corporation money. How many years and how many generations of hard work will they need to earn that level of income and wealth? Probably, never! But, now that money and that wealth will be legalized and legitimized through corrupt corruption charges to prevent future serious charges in the name of preventing double jeopardy.
Therefore, the Ethiopian public will be big time loser, unless one looks beyond these shell game of fake money and wealth laundering arrests and charges meant to legalize corruption gained wealth through corrupt and fake legal processes which will prevent future charges and arrests of these big cats and their beneficiaries in the name of double jeopardy.
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