sniper said:
Maxiton said:
Tienus said:
First you send me your money and I then lose it to you on purpose. You can now prove you have won the money playing poker.
Thanks. So I suppose your partner in crime (the guy who's losing to you) gets some kind of cut? Whereas, if he just kept your cash something bad might happen to him?
In my street there's a restaurant that is so badly located that it hardly attracts any customers.
And so the restaurant goes bankrupt and changes owner every couple of months. I lived here for two years, and I've seen four or five different owners there. The restaurant went from serving local food, to Chinese, to Indian, and back to local food. Not shitting you.
Only recently somebody told me that nobody's actually trying to open a restaurant there, but that the place is in fact being used for money laundring.
Just saying, I never quite understood the mechanics of money laundring.
Yeah, same here. I still don't understand it, but your story reminds me of a neighborhood I used to live in, in San Francisco. This neighborhood had a high number of recent Chinese immigrants, and the main street in the neighborhood was lined on each side with restaurants and shops, all owned and run by some of these same people. The food in most of these restaurants was quite poor, in terms of taste and presentation, and the shops, most of them, sold cheap trinkets and junk.
Opening a business in San Francisco is an expensive proposition, and business rents are among the highest in the country. But the funny thing is, many of these restaurants, and all the shops that sold cheap junk, were totally empty of customers. All the time empty. After a while I began to wonder, are these shops being used to launder money? On the face of it, it seems they were - even though I still don't know exactly how it works. How else to account for restaurateurs who don't know how to cook and have no clientele, and expensive shops full of inventory but with never any customers?