Corporations can be charged with crimes, anywhere. What this is suggesting is that the CEO's actually be held accountable.
Yes incorporation protects you from the fiscal results of your actions - the loss of your company should be enough of a punishment for 99% of business owners who fuck up through negligence or greed. However, when you're purposefully embezzling, tax evading and outright breaking moral, ethical and legal codes, then there should be a nice concrete cell waiting for you.
If you think fiscal immunity equates to legal and moral immunity, then you have a very distorted view of the world.
You'll go away for years for a non-violent mugging, but when you embezzle millions into offshore accounts you're given a slap on the wrist and allowed to leave the country to live in the Bahamas and not even attempt to pay your debt to the people you robbed blind.
Yes incorporation protects you from the fiscal results of your actions - the loss of your company should be enough of a punishment for 99% of business owners who fuck up through negligence or greed. However, when you're purposefully embezzling, tax evading and outright breaking moral, ethical and legal codes, then there should be a nice concrete cell waiting for you.
If you think fiscal immunity equates to legal and moral immunity, then you have a very distorted view of the world.
You'll go away for years for a non-violent mugging, but when you embezzle millions into offshore accounts you're given a slap on the wrist and allowed to leave the country to live in the Bahamas and not even attempt to pay your debt to the people you robbed blind.