I won’t do a repeat of what everyone already said, but there’s one detail that made this all childishly easy: Luggage of extremely wealthy people flying on their own personal private jets are never inspected. They get their own custom inspection to go through, which consists essentially of “thank you have a nice day Sir, we appreciate all the business.” on both ends of the flight.
If rich and important people are officially considered “too low risk to national security to bother”, then they know they can move anyone or anything between nations unofficially, the risk becomes null and void. Even if a 13 year old child is questioned and it turns out there’s no parent autorisation to leave the country, they simply understand that it must be a simply misunderstanding, “Please come back once her paperwork has cleared Sir, I’m sure she’ll love her dream vacation on the island she’s so impatient to get.”.
Billionires don’t use their private jets and customs inspection points to smuggle illegal goods, they “expedite the redtape”. Punishing them would “ruin a valuable contribution to society, everyone makes mistakes” in the same way as “Rich people aren’t crazy, they’re excentric. They’re not sociopaths, they’re goals oriented and get shit done”.
This whole affair should make us rethink how these parasites are accomodated in our society.
Edit: All the quotes except the last one are from memory, from watching a documentary on his whole thing a few years ago. Take it as paraphrasing, I suck at precisely quoting.
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