It's easy. Never dealt with €20M but the principle is scaleable, you smurf the money in ~€10k amounts through a network of trusted money mules. You buy a cash-only/mostly business like a car wash, take-away etc., rent half-a dozen shops and pump the cash through those, banks won't usually complain about cash coming in like this. €5k * 52 * {y stores}.
There are entire areas of shops in some cities where no-one goes in but the business has a healthy turnover.
There are lots of other methods too but those are trade secrets. "I could tell you but" etc. Easy 'big bang' methods like houses Rolls-Royces and art no longer work easily in most jurisdictions (oddly, apparently still in Oz from other comments). I miss the days when you could walk ito a bank with a shopping bag full of bundles of notes, I've done that - fun.
Money laundering conviction to tech worker sounds like a great story, I'm sure plenty more than just me would love to hear more about your background if you were willing to share.
In your opinion, what fraction of the small restaurants in a typical city are engaging in money laundering at this scale? And if weighted by volume, what fraction?
I think it's not so much restaurants, as the setup and operation costs are higher, but countertop takeaways I think. I'm not aware of any data but I'd guess from conversations & experience it was just a fraction - single percents? But I have no clue really.
For a good ML operation you need agility: easy quick and cheap to set up & teardown and move - hence takeaways, hand carwashes etc.
"Staff will be trained to the highest standards on the appropriate use of any new powers, and we will introduce new oversight and reporting mechanisms"
bwahaha. This joke gets better every time they tell it.
If they can use the DNA from picogrammes of DNA, ~15 cells, worth I suspect it would be hard to prevent leaking DNA during a crime; a bit of spittle, a cough droplet a tiny flake of dandruff could be enough I'd guess, if not now then soon.
DNA just says the person was present. Something that small could even come through an open window from miles away. You generally need the DNA source to be damning, like semen, skin under fingernails, etc. For it just to “be on the couch” might get you an interview with the police, but not a conviction by itself.
I remember the surprise in seeing him in a very minor role in the 1967 The Billion Dollar Brain. He was playing a tape monkey for a huge mainframe, loading huge reels of magnetic tape into a Honeywell. It was fun to see the genesis of a great man's acting career.
No, it was exactly that dumb.
It was real "country" out there...
The guy driving with his lights off hit the parked cop car at about 80mph...on a 45mph limit road. Those roads are usually filled with deer at night too. Total darwin award winners.
It's easy. Never dealt with €20M but the principle is scaleable, you smurf the money in ~€10k amounts through a network of trusted money mules. You buy a cash-only/mostly business like a car wash, take-away etc., rent half-a dozen shops and pump the cash through those, banks won't usually complain about cash coming in like this. €5k * 52 * {y stores}. There are entire areas of shops in some cities where no-one goes in but the business has a healthy turnover.
There are lots of other methods too but those are trade secrets. "I could tell you but" etc. Easy 'big bang' methods like houses Rolls-Royces and art no longer work easily in most jurisdictions (oddly, apparently still in Oz from other comments). I miss the days when you could walk ito a bank with a shopping bag full of bundles of notes, I've done that - fun.