• @apfelwoiSchoppen
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    39 months ago

    Cartels have to launder their money somehow, no better way than catering to Midwesterners.

    • @raspberriesareyummy
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      09 months ago

      That seems like a logical explanation at first, but how do you launder dirty money by offering services to tourists who bring “clean” money into the country? and wouldn’t the cartels have a multiple in money from drug trades compared to the overall transactions involved in tourism?

      I mean, I am not saying you are wrong, it just never occurred to me that this could be more than just a nice additional source of income…

      • @[email protected]
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        69 months ago

        Laundering money is usually mixing dirty cash with clean cash. So you have legit business(es) in a busy area, and you inflate the ‘real’ income with the ‘dirty’ cash. Now you’ve paid taxes on the dirty cash (and can put it in the bank).

        • @raspberriesareyummy
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          39 months ago

          oh. yeah, that makes sense! Thank you for the money laundering crash course :D

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            No problem. The best types of businesses for this deal with a lot of cash, and are ideally service-based. If you are selling goods, then someone could investigate and find that you aren’t buying enough supplies to account for your sales. For laundering millions, real-estate and fine art are popular, since you can buy it cheap, and then inflate it pretty arbitrarily, and sell it (to yourself or a coconspirator) for a huge ‘profit’.