James Stunts business’ raided, days after brothers death
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hyphen said:
Burwood said:
All the money Stunt had has been frozen by the authorities as they suspect he is a criminal and I would wager you don't get such an order with just light weight evidence. .
Hasn't it been a few years? Why is taking so long to bring a case.A quote from the papers His international man of mystery act is all well and good, but a fluctuating weight and preference for shiny suits combine, at times, to give him the air of a David Brent rather than a James Bond.
WCZ said:
MX5Biologist said:
No aUK diplomatic passport. You can buy diplomatic passports from many countries.
https://www.dw.com/en/diplomatic-passports-pouches...
that's pretty cool!https://www.dw.com/en/diplomatic-passports-pouches...
Want!
"Tycoon James Stunt was ‘ripe for exploitation’ due to his association with ‘drugs and prostitutes’," - https://courtnewsuk.co.uk/james-stunt-was-ripe-for...
Why does this not surprise me in the slightest? The rest of the article is behind a paywall,
Why does this not surprise me in the slightest? The rest of the article is behind a paywall,
£266m dirty money trial begins at Leeds Cloth Hall Court: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10778453/...
Going back a bit, but I wasn't aware of Stunt being charged with this either - https://news.sky.com/story/ex-husband-of-f1-heires...
Still not gone to trial yet either.
Still not gone to trial yet either.
z4RRSchris said:
seems like a pretty stupid operation putting a million in cash a day into a bank account.
It sounds bizarre that anyone would think they’d get away with that reading the details daily deposits of between £70k and £2.2m everyday with money in sports bags and carrier bags to one bank in Yorkshire, lots of Scottish notes and money arriving with a bad smell (literally dirty money!).
Its mad
But
It also worked for quite a while - and its also taken a while for it to come to court
If I was a betting man, Shunty has been pawned out to run things due to his nativity anda taste for the PH fave "coke and hookers" someone else was pulling the strings in the shadows
Terrys chocolate Orange anyone?
But
It also worked for quite a while - and its also taken a while for it to come to court
If I was a betting man, Shunty has been pawned out to run things due to his nativity anda taste for the PH fave "coke and hookers" someone else was pulling the strings in the shadows
Terrys chocolate Orange anyone?
Edited by TwistingMyMelon on Wednesday 4th May 10:02
Introducing Fowler Oldfield, a jewellers in Bradford, which was founded in 1897 and operated for many years as a legitimate jewellery business. In recent years however, Fowler Oldfield presented itself as a ‘cash for gold’ business while in many ways acting like a criminal bank. Any criminal group could walk into its premises with a bag full of dirty money and leave with an agreement that for a fee of around 7% they would start to receive clean money funnelling into their accounts as wages or clean assets. The building itself was a massive warehouse with lots of desks and weighing scales, which were supposedly being used for ‘cash-for-gold’ transactions, but were in fact being used to count the criminal cash that was coming in.
There are several reasons why criminals opted to launder their cash using this service:
• They could launder almost unlimited amounts
• It only cost 7% (vs the more expensive option of buying a cash-based business through which to launder funds)
• Reduced hassle and risk
There are several reasons why criminals opted to launder their cash using this service:
• They could launder almost unlimited amounts
• It only cost 7% (vs the more expensive option of buying a cash-based business through which to launder funds)
• Reduced hassle and risk
anonymous said:
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it was used to buy gold (at places like stunts) which is now long gone. i imagine the machine went like this, which is highly unsophisticated and terrible laundering, gold isn't a cash business to start with.
you give £100 to Fowler Oldfield
They deposit it in cash into natwest
they use that to buy gold at stunts / other places
they give you back £93 in gold / transfer
z4RRSchris said:
Introducing Fowler Oldfield, a jewellers in Bradford, which was founded in 1897 and operated for many years as a legitimate jewellery business. In recent years however, Fowler Oldfield presented itself as a ‘cash for gold’ business while in many ways acting like a criminal bank. Any criminal group could walk into its premises with a bag full of dirty money and leave with an agreement that for a fee of around 7% they would start to receive clean money funnelling into their accounts as wages or clean assets. The building itself was a massive warehouse with lots of desks and weighing scales, which were supposedly being used for ‘cash-for-gold’ transactions, but were in fact being used to count the criminal cash that was coming in.
There are several reasons why criminals opted to launder their cash using this service:
• They could launder almost unlimited amounts
• It only cost 7% (vs the more expensive option of buying a cash-based business through which to launder funds)
• Reduced hassle and risk
One fundamental issue with that business, cash FOR gold, means that cash goes out of the business, not in (in vast quantities on a daily basis!) There are several reasons why criminals opted to launder their cash using this service:
• They could launder almost unlimited amounts
• It only cost 7% (vs the more expensive option of buying a cash-based business through which to launder funds)
• Reduced hassle and risk
rallycross said:
It sounds bizarre that anyone would think they’d get away with that reading the details daily deposits of between £70k and £2.2m everyday with money in sports bags and carrier bags to one bank in Yorkshire, lots of Scottish notes and money arriving with a bad smell (literally dirty money!).
It's happened beforehttps://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/this-tory-dono...
rustyuk said:
How the hell did they think depositing £1.7 million in cash a day would go unnoticed.
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