.And this one. Heartbreaking. The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin 1977. The illustrated version is by Adam Tots (I think).

In Sweden, social security fraud has reached a level, where it is now a national security threat. Enormous sums of Swedish tax payers' money are secreted abroad, partly at the behest of or for the benefit of foreign (state) actors.

I have long held the opinion that all legislation (and treaties) should be red teamed by 'criminal' red teamers. And then decide if the pros still outweigh the cons, incl the costs of enforcement.

A famous American university president once said that unis shouldn’t be engaged in making ideas safe for students, but in making students safe for ideas.

And I am guessing that TBML makes good use of rules and legislation that were intended to properly regulate licit trade. But that is a hypothesis.

Another example, also from the Netherlands, is the change in legislation that allowed online gambling & betting, including gambling platforms from abroad. No prizes for guessing how that turned out.

The motivation, if I recall correctly, was 'cutting back red tape', but you will understand the consequences.

Every system will be gamed.
Example 1: The Dutch Central Bank is responsible for supervising trust offices (CSPs) in The Netherlands. A no. of years ago, this legal obligation was altered, and the potentially problematic off-shoring business was removed from supervision.

Claude Shannon said: Content is irrelevant to the problem of engineering. I.e. a channel/mode fit for transferring money or value is fit for the transfer of illicit money. Any measure to facilitate licit trade & finance will likely ease illicit trade & finance. 1/2

Policies/legislation intended to solve one issue/problem, of which the 2nd order effect is, however, that it enables illicit finance and moneylaundering. Red teaming legislation.

Example: Former PM of Dagestan gets run over by a car and killed. Little to no information on who hit him or how it happened.

Very specific information on the car that ran him over.

ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%...

I did, and it was worth it. The engineering mindset helps a lot. I like the way you think.