How to save my friend?

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I need some advice on how I can save my friend, I'm worried he may get arrested.

He set up an internet company where he sells computer software as a front. In reality, he uses the business to launder money from stolen credit cards and bank accounts. He has already received several warnings from the law enforcement agencies, and if this goes on, I might lose my only friend.

My friend also has Asperger's, in case if this helps.

Difficult one, the thing is that if he is an adult who is not viewed by the state to be legally unfit to manage his own afairs then there is very little you can do to help him unless he wants to be helped.

If I was you, then I would sit him down and explain to him that he could go to prison (a very aspie unfriendly place) if he gets caught doing money laundering. I would strongly advise him to go and see a good criminal lawyer, I feel I know too little to be able to tell you what to tell him to do. A legal professional would be likely to do a better job.

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Ask him if he has a death wish and insist he desists immediately - not tomorrow, not after dinner, now. And, yes, tell him to find a good criminal lawyer if he doesn't want to live in fear of what will happen if he drops the soap.

The guy is playing a game that will bring him serious trouble. Make sure that he knows this.

The best advise I can give you is that tell him it's either surrender to the law and face much lesser charges, or risk being put in jail for years (or at least having to pay a fine that he cannot afford).

Besides, what he is doing is unfair to the many people he has ripped off. Think about the innocent individuals who lost so much of their credit card money and bank accounts to people who don't truly deserve it. It's only fair that you're friend, regardless of who he is, faces the consequences for violating their right to hold onto their own money.

Is he any good at it? What are the chances of him getting caught?

Many people believe that all criminals get caught, but they don't.

I'd advise him to not push his luck and stop it now though.

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To be blunt, if your friend ever get caught, I dare say that "having Asperger Syndrome" won't result in a lighter sentence. If I were you, I would remind your friend that there is a Chinese saying that goes "If you go up the mountain too often, you will encounter tigers one day", meaning that if you do something illegal too often, you will have to face the consequences one day.

Keep your distance; you do not want to get arrested along with your friend, and he will get arrested soon.

You can't save someone unless they want to be saved. Tell him how it would affect you if he gets caught. It might give him something to think about. And then let him be, it's his life. Sometimes people just have to make their own mistakes.