The way Afanasiev told it, an extra passport was a form of insurance for his clients, since they could never be sure what the Kremlin would do next. It is simply sensible to have a second passport in your safe, so you always have the option of dropping everything, hopping on a plane and getting out. Your money is offshore already and, once you have a new passport, you are effectively offshore yourself, beyond the reach of your home country’s law enforcement.
