“May have received foreign subsidies” seems like an extremely flimsy justification for an all out raid. By the time you are raiding an office, you should basically already be sure of the wrongdoing and are just gathering up additional evidence. You don’t raid offices based on a hunch or as a preliminary investigation.
“If there is no wrong doing there is nothing to worry about” is a ridiculous argument. If the police bust in your house and search the place because of an anonymous tip (which would be more evidence than they have here), you would be fine with it? Or would you also react exactly like the Chinese chamber of commerce?
Even if we grant that there is some real financial wrongdoing here, which at this point I would be unlikely to believe, you don’t start your investigation with a raid. Even if I were a diehard Team EU fan, it is a terrible idea. If the company was doing anything wrong and didn’t keep evidence on site, you have just given them plenty of time to destroy it or move it. You don’t raid somewhere without prior knowledge that the thing you are looking for is at the raid site because you are just fishing and hoping the evidence will be there. It’s terrible police work.
“May have received foreign subsidies” seems like an extremely flimsy justification for an all out raid. By the time you are raiding an office, you should basically already be sure of the wrongdoing and are just gathering up additional evidence. You don’t raid offices based on a hunch or as a preliminary investigation.
“If there is no wrong doing there is nothing to worry about” is a ridiculous argument. If the police bust in your house and search the place because of an anonymous tip (which would be more evidence than they have here), you would be fine with it? Or would you also react exactly like the Chinese chamber of commerce?
Even if we grant that there is some real financial wrongdoing here, which at this point I would be unlikely to believe, you don’t start your investigation with a raid. Even if I were a diehard Team EU fan, it is a terrible idea. If the company was doing anything wrong and didn’t keep evidence on site, you have just given them plenty of time to destroy it or move it. You don’t raid somewhere without prior knowledge that the thing you are looking for is at the raid site because you are just fishing and hoping the evidence will be there. It’s terrible police work.