Yet over all these years, with more than seventy thousand people having purchased stars from this association, it had never faced any official penalty from any government.
A very important reason for this was that the International Star Association was a charitable organization. All the proceeds from selling stars were used for public welfare funds, so governments around the world simply turned a blind eye.
Otherwise, would Dai Jingfu have been foolish enough to spend a million US dollars illegally buying a star?
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