You find a suitcase with £1 million in it. What would you do

[robinessex]

Ok, fun question! You find a suitcase with a million quid in it. No possible way anyone could know you've got it. What would you do? And before you ask, no I bloody well haven't found one!

[B17NNS]

I suppose you have to launder it to some extent.

Hard spending large amounts of cash these days.

[23rdian]

Wouldn't have thought you would need to launder that much?

Erm, take it?

[Motorrad]

Burn it and make a video about it.

[kambites]

I'm pretty sure I'd take it to the police, but I suppose I'll never know until it happens.

[MacW]

You can call me Juan from now on, come visit me in Guatemala.

[dxg]

You mean that suitcase with £900k in it?

[callmedave]

Bail out Mallory park via an anonymous gift?

[Monkeylegend]

Not sure about the money, but I need a new suitcase.

[A common lawyer]

23rdian said:

Wouldn't have thought you would need to launder that much?

Erm, take it?

You're going to spend £250 a day, every day, for ten years? That's some serious stamina! If you're paying for bigger stuff in cash (travel, cars, houses) that starts to get suspicious!

[BJG1]

Keep it.

[panholio]

I would keep quiet on it for a few weeks. See if anything pops up in the media. If nothing then start to use it.

I would look to see if the notes were consecutively numbered or somehow traceable. If they weren't I would do the following.

Slowly introduce the money into my day to day spending by purchasing pretty much all my monthly spends in cash. Fuel/ food/ clothes - small purchases etc etc. I would then overpay my mortgage up to the maximum allowable until I had paid it off. Then move my way up the housing ladder and repeat.

This is a hugely long term strategy though.

If the notes were traceable, coke and hookers, holidays etc

Edited by panholio on Thursday 31st October 14:51

[DannyScene]

Deffinately keep it

[23rdian]

A common lawyer said:

You're going to spend £250 a day, every day, for ten years? That's some serious stamina! If you're paying for bigger stuff in cash (travel, cars, houses) that starts to get suspicious!

Yep. Or as I need to. It's a managable amount really.

[B17NNS]

Out of interest how do criminals legitimise large sums of cash?

[berlintaxi]

Hand it in, if no one claims it in 6 months it is yours legally, better than having the mob after you.

[Smanks]

Remove the tracking device

[A common lawyer]

B17NNS said:

Out of interest how do criminals legitimise large sums of cash?

They start cash-heavy businesses. Like laundries. Hence "money-laundering". Recently, it seems, they just pop along to HSBC, who open up a special fund just for them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269

I've done lots of POCA investigations and seizures, so I guess the answer is "most of them struggle"

[Bebee]

Ok so you're the one with my case, where is it? and no funny business!!

[MacW]

panholio said:

If the notes were seemingly untraceable, coke and hookers

Surely this is what you spend it on if it is traceable?