Yes, that was the joke. The police should do their job and they are to blame for failing to identify (and to arrest) scammers and criminals. Yet the article blames it all on private businesses, who really shouldn't be tasked with detective work in the first place.
If blames the failures of these states to identify and shut down operations literally working against them. These crypto companies acted as intermediaries for financing Russian mercs with money out of drugs ops.
