Comment by ecocentrik

They had to transfer gold, US dollars or other physical assets to finance their operations before which made them significantly more vulnerable and restricted. Sending crypto to your family is a temporary solution to the problem of the kleptocracy economically handicapping their capacity to generate and retain wealth. Crypto enables the kleptocrat to transfer the wealth they steal from their country internationally with a significantly lower transactional cost and at significantly higher volume.

By sending your family money, as crypto or US dollars, you have to assume some percentage of that money is going to end up in the kleptocrat's pocket. If the funds are eventually settled through official exchanges in the country, its very likely that the government gets a cut of the exchange transactions. If its being settled by unofficial exchanges like street exchange vendors, those individuals probably pay some bribe or tax to operate that eventually makes its way back to the kleptocrat. Additionally you are offering the kleptocrat increased liquidity by operating with crypto. Assume the kleptocrat is the largest buyer of cryptocurrencies in their country.