And Putin cannot avoid responsibility.

But start telling them, you know, we're going to try to do it in Nigeria everyone runs away.

Karimov, not surprisingly, dodged and weaved instead.

In the end, an adviser to authoritarian leaders cannot escape the dilemma.

Anyone found to be illegally evading their tax obligations in Switzerland faces severe financial penalties.

If the bank goes bankrupt, the holder of the covered bond has a direct claim against the homeowner, who cannot escape payment by simply returning his house key.

The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.

And Putin cannot avoid responsibility. If the Kremlin claimed credit for the oil and gas fired prosperity of the past six years prosperity due solely to economic exuberance elsewhere in the world the Kremlin should be accountable for the current devastation.

Evasion of financial support Article 238 states (1) whoever evades to give support for a person, he or she is, on the basis of an executive court decision or executive settlement concluded before another competent body, legally binded to support, will be punished by prison sentence of up to one year.

So, despite some foreign media reports, tax evasion is not legal in Switzerland it merely is not a criminal offence. Anyone found to be illegally evading their tax obligations in Switzerland faces severe financial penalties.