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 Would it be? I don’t think they are assuming the destination is always you. Just because the recipient isn’t always you doesn’t mean the KYC is broken. At least if “breaking the KYC” means zeroing out the useful data they are getting about you.

They may be able to figure out things about you based on where it’s going, the amount, the timing, the frequency, etc if they have figured out something about the destination. You may be investigated because of your military relationship with that person.

It’s the same reason chainanalysis thinks they have a good product even though one hop technically breaks their KYC too: because one hop is more than zero data, and put a few of those together (or many) and you start to have significant insight into what is happening (or at least so they will claim)