• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    Corporations do this regularly. Using funds from one branch of their business to prop up others. That’s neither new or illegal in the EU.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      you’re right, it’s not. but when legally attempting to distinguish where one company ends and the other begins, it’s up to the court to judge based on liquidity between the two.

      if you run company A B and C and have money flowing from A to C and C to B and B to A, the feds might think you’re laundering money.