You find a suitcase with £1 million in it. What would you do
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XJSJohn said:
Du1point8 said:
Flip Martian said:
That would be the other thing then. Have a few quid stashed about your person or luggage and spend it overseas? Repeated holidays abroad? If you had a few thousand in 50s in a wallet, that would be doable? I've never had my wallet looked at at an airport.
They would see it on the security scan and ask you.Anymore than £10k would need to be declared.
very nice portable equivalent of a GBP500 note.
Buy a few nice expensive watches with a good resale value ...
Some diamonds loose in pocket... etc etc ...
all nice easy and portable ....
few trips out to SE Asia and Robert is your mothers brother ...
yes they have a UK branch and i am reliably informed that they don't have much by way of morals ...
Also, its pretty easy to buy stones for cash, and they are nice and portable ...
easy to distribute your now portable suitcase of cash that has been reduced
GBP250k can be moved in 500 notes ...
i have not been thinking much about this, honest .....
Also, its pretty easy to buy stones for cash, and they are nice and portable ...
easy to distribute your now portable suitcase of cash that has been reduced
GBP250k can be moved in 500 notes ...
i have not been thinking much about this, honest .....
XJSJohn said:
yes they have a UK branch and i am reliably informed that they don't have much by way of morals ...
Also, its pretty easy to buy stones for cash, and they are nice and portable ...
easy to distribute your now portable suitcase of cash that has been reduced
GBP250k can be moved in 500 notes ...
i have not been thinking much about this, honest .....
No of course you haven't... Bet you asked your accountant OH?Also, its pretty easy to buy stones for cash, and they are nice and portable ...
easy to distribute your now portable suitcase of cash that has been reduced
GBP250k can be moved in 500 notes ...
i have not been thinking much about this, honest .....
Just for advice of course.
Du1point8 said:
XJSJohn said:
how is Tricky??
XJSJohn said:
Du1point8 said:
XJSJohn said:
how is Tricky??
I would have kept that for life.
Du1point8 said:
XJSJohn said:
Du1point8 said:
XJSJohn said:
how is Tricky??
I would have kept that for life.
went yellow datsun, and now big thai spec pickup! BigBen said:
I hope that your estimates are correct, the mrs is opening a kiddies soft play centre any day now. Sadly we didn't find the suitcase to help with start up costs, then again I would say that.
Make sure it's kept clean. Most of the ones we've been to are pretty disgusting after a very short while.Simples open a barbers or fried chicken place in the mid/suburban London like everyone else does who has this issue
£10 hair cut
3 x hair cuts an hour
8 x hours
3 x barbers
£200k a year
Do that for a few years, funnel the cash through, pay tax on all the profits and don't be too greedy or draw too much attention to yourself
If you fancy a bit of skirt, do a beauty salon/hairdressers/botox/sun beds, more profit but more people pay by card . Barbers is always all cash as is takeaways. You funnel the cash through slowly, so the only way you could get caught is by if someone recorded the footfall into the shop over one year.
After 5- 10 years sell the business on and retire on the profits (legit and elegit)
£10 hair cut
3 x hair cuts an hour
8 x hours
3 x barbers
£200k a year
Do that for a few years, funnel the cash through, pay tax on all the profits and don't be too greedy or draw too much attention to yourself
If you fancy a bit of skirt, do a beauty salon/hairdressers/botox/sun beds, more profit but more people pay by card . Barbers is always all cash as is takeaways. You funnel the cash through slowly, so the only way you could get caught is by if someone recorded the footfall into the shop over one year.
After 5- 10 years sell the business on and retire on the profits (legit and elegit)
It's no urban myth about cash getting picked up in airport scanners. I once went through the scanner at City Aiport with £5000 in CHF's for a very legitimate reason (and luckily I had the receipt from Amex showing I had bought the CHF's from them). Got pulled into a side room and asked "are you carrying a large amount of cash sir " ? ....by a very nice policeman with a large gun.
Sadly I think it would be all too possible to lost £1mil in cash through daily spending etc
Sadly I think it would be all too possible to lost £1mil in cash through daily spending etc
Getting the cash OUT of the UK should be easy enough. Stash it in the new caravan you've just bought for your Mom & Dad, get them to take a ferry to Northern France or Bilbao, Spain. Meet them there and launder cash there. Somehow.
No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
Fastchas said:
Getting the cash OUT of the UK should be easy enough. Stash it in the new caravan you've just bought for your Mom & Dad, get them to take a ferry to Northern France or Bilbao, Spain. Meet them there and launder cash there. Somehow.
No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
That's it, kick your dear old mom and dad under the bus, there's a good lad No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
Greg_D said:
Fastchas said:
Getting the cash OUT of the UK should be easy enough. Stash it in the new caravan you've just bought for your Mom & Dad, get them to take a ferry to Northern France or Bilbao, Spain. Meet them there and launder cash there. Somehow.
No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
That's it, kick your dear old mom and dad under the bus, there's a good lad No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
Howabout if I ride in the back of the Volvo with them? Thereby reinforcing my belief it'll work.
Fastchas said:
Greg_D said:
Fastchas said:
Getting the cash OUT of the UK should be easy enough. Stash it in the new caravan you've just bought for your Mom & Dad, get them to take a ferry to Northern France or Bilbao, Spain. Meet them there and launder cash there. Somehow.
No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
That's it, kick your dear old mom and dad under the bus, there's a good lad No-one on the docks checks Brian's & Eileen's Bailey Discovery on the way out, do they??
Howabout if I ride in the back of the Volvo with them? Thereby reinforcing my belief it'll work.
As it happens, you could walk onto the ferry with a bulging holdall full of used tenners and noone would check.
Contrary to what others have said on here about scanners, it has been a friend's experience that customs can't find their arse with 2 hands when it comes to detecting incoming money in 'relatively' large amounts (certainly more than their rather arbitrary £10k limit) through busy airports.
As an aside, all things are relative, what right do customs have to ask you where you got £5/10k in cash? to many people that is walk around money and nothing even vaguely out of the ordinary, especially in the context of sunny holidays when you may buy some nice jewellery etc.
Greg_D said:
yes it does read like that, lol
As it happens, you could walk onto the ferry with a bulging holdall full of used tenners and noone would check.
Contrary to what others have said on here about scanners, it has been a friend's experience that customs can't find their arse with 2 hands when it comes to detecting incoming money in 'relatively' large amounts (certainly more than their rather arbitrary £10k limit) through busy airports.
As an aside, all things are relative, what right do customs have to ask you where you got £5/10k in cash? to many people that is walk around money and nothing even vaguely out of the ordinary, especially in the context of sunny holidays when you may buy some nice jewellery etc.
The point is to try to confront money launderers, smugglers, tax evaders etc.As it happens, you could walk onto the ferry with a bulging holdall full of used tenners and noone would check.
Contrary to what others have said on here about scanners, it has been a friend's experience that customs can't find their arse with 2 hands when it comes to detecting incoming money in 'relatively' large amounts (certainly more than their rather arbitrary £10k limit) through busy airports.
As an aside, all things are relative, what right do customs have to ask you where you got £5/10k in cash? to many people that is walk around money and nothing even vaguely out of the ordinary, especially in the context of sunny holidays when you may buy some nice jewellery etc.
RobinBanks said:
Greg_D said:
yes it does read like that, lol
As it happens, you could walk onto the ferry with a bulging holdall full of used tenners and noone would check.
Contrary to what others have said on here about scanners, it has been a friend's experience that customs can't find their arse with 2 hands when it comes to detecting incoming money in 'relatively' large amounts (certainly more than their rather arbitrary £10k limit) through busy airports.
As an aside, all things are relative, what right do customs have to ask you where you got £5/10k in cash? to many people that is walk around money and nothing even vaguely out of the ordinary, especially in the context of sunny holidays when you may buy some nice jewellery etc.
The point is to try to confront money launderers, smugglers, tax evaders etc.As it happens, you could walk onto the ferry with a bulging holdall full of used tenners and noone would check.
Contrary to what others have said on here about scanners, it has been a friend's experience that customs can't find their arse with 2 hands when it comes to detecting incoming money in 'relatively' large amounts (certainly more than their rather arbitrary £10k limit) through busy airports.
As an aside, all things are relative, what right do customs have to ask you where you got £5/10k in cash? to many people that is walk around money and nothing even vaguely out of the ordinary, especially in the context of sunny holidays when you may buy some nice jewellery etc.
Let's take an entirely fictitious scenario - So let's say someone were to take £20k of legitimate funds from a uk bank and put it in the safe at home, go on hols with the receipt from the bank but not the money, 'find' £20k whilst on hols and return with it and the receipt (having not bought the jewellery they were intent on getting, officer) what are customs going to say about that?
safe money goes back to bank and holiday money goes into safe, easy!!!
it is so laughably easy to come up with any number of different legitimate scenarios as to make an utter mockery of the money laundering regs. They may as well not bother!!!
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