Hot money.

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Writhing

Original Poster:

498 posts

111 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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We've had how to disappear and how to dispose of a corpse.

Just imagine for a second that you've just done a "job" and are sitting in your front room with a big bag containing £750,000 in cash. What would you do? You can't just go and put it in the bank nor could you go and buy a silly car, What would be the best way to remove suspicion?

MX5_Nuts

1,487 posts

109 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Blow it all on hookers.

J4CKO

41,863 posts

202 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Wait, wait, and wait some more. No big purchases, perhaps just occasionally use the cash, in small amounts for small items and launder it, cash businesses like takeaways,pubs, taxis etc, but dont change your patterns of spending, and extra few hundred a week you can explain away but not thousands on extravagant purchases.

Hide it in numerous places, in small amounts and make notes of where.

Keep a low profile, dont change pattterns too much.

Maybe feign a lottery win with friends and family but that wont fool authorities.

Investigate offshore banking

I would think it would take years to filter that into legitimate wealth, any big deposits come up on the radar with banks.


Glasgowrob

3,249 posts

123 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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As above I own a taxi company so all good slowly filter it through the books over a couple of years and just let everyone think the business is just doing better than expected

Doofus

26,507 posts

175 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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1. Drive it to Switzerland stuffed in the kids' suitcases.
2. Put in in a bank there.
3. Go back a couple of years later, and bring 300k back in cash in your briefcase.
4. Get arrested at Heathrow.
5. Do eight months, with two years suspended, for tax fraud.

That's the way my late busienss partner did it. Before I knew him, I hasten to add. I only found out about this after he died.

WindyCommon

3,402 posts

241 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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You'll be needing the world's most local bank.

FredClogs

14,041 posts

163 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Didn't I tell you not to buy anything?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlMOgvQdSic


MrBarry123

6,033 posts

123 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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I'd probably just open a current account with HSBC and stick it in there. They've seemed pretty chilled about these kind of things in the past.

ETA: Damn it WindyCommon, beat me to it! biggrin

bristolracer

5,571 posts

151 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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So how to get rid of a body
How to stash away the cash

Elsewhere in the lounge forum

Value of a diamond
Along with a few divorce threads

Things are getting fishy around here...

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

95 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Short of getting involved with a business that has a large cash turn over, which I'd never get right and which would likely end up with me being in jail for money laundering (and probably the original crime) I think that keeping it safe and secure and using the cash to get by would be the only realistic way for me - using it for shopping, weekends away, fuel, general living expenses, that sort of stuff, whilst banking my wage once the usual suspects (mortgage/utilities/etc) had been deducted.

Chebble

1,915 posts

154 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Well, as £10 notes are being changed to the polymer note later this year, with £20's following early next year, you wouldn't be able to wait too long!

carmadgaz

3,201 posts

185 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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There are so many ways to go about it. My general living costs (shopping / car bills etc) would be an easy start. Could afford to go to the pub more often for a start biggrin

Get a small bank loan (to provide legit capital), set up a business (I'd get myself a truck) and slowly launder it through that. Would also give you a legit income.

My cars/bikes change on a regular basis so noone would be surprised if I "upgrade" them one by one and bit by bit. A few private buys in cash (cars you sell would show a legit source of cash) before you start doing the same with dealers (part ex when you get up to a decent car and a top up with a few grand (below the alarm bell level). Different car/bike every 6/12 months etc.

As long as you exercised some self restraint (no sudden large houses/ Ferraris etc) you could leech it into your finances easy enough I reckons wink

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

95 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Chebble said:
Well, as £10 notes are being changed to the polymer note later this year, with £20's following early next year, you wouldn't be able to wait too long!
Changing reasonable amounts into foreign currency along the way as well then perhaps? Can change it back into sterling at a later date in small amounts here and there, although taking the exchange rate hit might sting, it's still better than the cash becoming useless surely.

carmadgaz

3,201 posts

185 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Chebble said:
Well, as £10 notes are being changed to the polymer note later this year, with £20's following early next year, you wouldn't be able to wait too long!
Ooh crap forgot about that. Better hold off on the job until after that. Tyrone the driver has already nicked a SD1 as the getaway car but I'm sure we can hide it.

J4CKO

41,863 posts

202 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Ideal time for a sleeper type car, say a stty old Passat with RS4 running gear ?

MethylatedSpirit

1,909 posts

138 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Start a church and claim divine intervention. Job Jobbed.

wiffmaster

2,604 posts

200 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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  • Set up art gallery in posh London location
  • Train a chimp to paint rubbish 'modern art' pieces and put them in the window display at £5,000 a pop
  • 'Sell' a couple of pieces each week (by 'sell' I mean 'throw on a bonfire')
Reckon I could launder the whole lot in a couple of years.

anonymous-user

56 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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I wouldn't bother trying to launder it through a business. Too easy to get caught.

I would just spend it on minor things that I would otherwise use my legal income for.

Need a couple of new £1000 TV's for thee house? Use the cash.

Need a new apple laptop and iPad? Use the cash.

Need new clothes and watches? Use the cash.

Filling the cars up with fuel each week? Use the cash.

Doing the weekly shop at the supermarket? Use the cash.

Buying furniture or home improvements? New kitchen or bathroom? Use the cash.

Booking a fancy holiday? Go to a local travel agent and pay cash.

That way, your legitimate income money will pile up in your bank account and everyone is happy smile

anonymous-user

56 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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the crypto world offers loads of ways to transfer the cash, then transfer to bitcoin, get a debit card, unload with bitcoins and spend, all out of the eyes of the government.


bloomen

7,041 posts

161 months

Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Give it another 5-10 years and they're going to go all out for cashlessness. Then everyone's real problems will begin.