Re:Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after fou...
by fennecfoxen on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:03AM
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> Someone is always going to bear responsibility.
"Powerful people demand that there is always some scapegoat who they can abuse, even if they aren't at fault and it doesn't really help make things better."
Blood for the blood god, I suppose!
Re:Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after fou...
by throwaway2037 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:13AM
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You wrote: <<This is why, when you are incorporating an off-shore company, you need some kind of "representative" in the country itself.>> Absolutely not. All kinds of shell corporations are setup with nothing more than a letterbox. Look at the Carribean (incl. Bermuda), Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Langkawi, Singapore, Hongkong (the list goes on and on!). Literally, they have huge numbers of off-shore corporations registered with no one on-shore.
In places with stronger regulation and rule of law, these letterbox shell corporations are not allowed or strictly regulated.
The court did not do some random detention (they did let the rest of the crew) but they declared him the responsible party. In that case, he did break the Egyptian law.
If you are getting a job where you bear a certain responsibility, you have to make sure that the company is not breaking the law through you. You'll be responsible, and worse, if the company is headquartered overseas, you might bear the whole responsibility.