I do have to wonder if there is a Hesbollah element going on here, Lebanon is such a tiny nation, with so few people, and its not particularly rich either. Their taxes are much lower than most western nations generally capping out at 20% or so. They basically have the same gdp per capita and population as Libya and its around $8,000. How do you︀ justify going offshore in a country where the average person is only making $8k? Even︁ if you are making 10 times the average, the cost might not even cover the︂ savings. given Lebanese modest tax regime.
Given how close they are to Dubai, it doesn't︃ even make sense that they try to gain access to these non-arab financial places. I︄ can see why they have all these problems because it just has all the indicators︅ of terrorism financing. The EMIs are right to be suspicious. The worse thing that could︆ happen for us is a bunch of Hezbollah terrorist get caught using the same things︇ we are using (emis) and it get ruined for those of us who use it︈ for legitimate reasons of privacy and diversification (like terrorist using swiss accounts and offshore, etc).︉