yes it has political aim to disband the mafia group, but tplf is a step ahead from the federal gov't. tplf has stored tremendous amount of hard currency (USD, EUR, GBP...) and hard assets too (it has the largest regional gold reserve *in meteric tons to be specific). at this point and 3 months ahead, they'll only keep an amount of liquid cash they wouldn't mind to lose. also they're way beyond capable to launder their liquid assets. also as a guy who's a virtuso in the gold market, i can tell you the sharp incline in unit price of gold in the local market ppg is due to high demand of gold. yihe addis bank note yetatemew bank wst apparent yehone shortage of liquid cash silale new (low cash = less gov't power), ahun be addisu note miknyat sewu genzebun lemelewet gideta bank yihedal, bank kehede degmo max cash transaction per day 100k new per month degmo 1 million new, so peoples owning money beyond 100k are forced to keep their cash in banks 'atleast for somewhile, ... and this will lead to a better accumlation of liquid cash in the national bank' which = more powerful government so in conclusion, i'd say this strategic manuver will have little to no impact on the tigrean govt.