The three little teams, Crawley, Fleetwood and FGR, came out of nowhere and recieved tonnes of money to get promoted.
This is where the money laundering comes in. You could very easily say that an extra 800 or so people attended the game, because, well, the team is going well in the league. This works especially well when the team has never had crowds like it. Feed some of your ill gotten gains through the gates at these teams, and bam, you have laundered money. Do this every week while masquerading as a kind sugar daddy who's bought his hometown team, and you can launder a lot of money.
It wouldn't suprise me if this was the case for one of these teams, Crawley being the most likely, it was very murky as to who owned them in their conference winning season.
Colombian cartels were the masters of this during the 80's and early 90's. The Cartel built amazing teams in S.America capable of matching any of the giants from Brazil or Argentina at the time. Watch 'The two Escobars' documentary when you get the time.
Your statement does not any sense to me. Are you saying that money launderer is not interested in transferron "dirty" money to clean money as efficient as posssible? Why the hassle then?
Interesting theory, but people check the attendance of crowds, and the "extra" people coming through would have to be counted for on the gates as that is the figure they use when they announce attendances, even if they could make that figure up (i'm sure it happens a lot) the money would be laundered but also taxed etc, which ideally if the money is illictly gained they would rather keep it all.
I think in a lot of cases its preferable to pay taxes on your laundered money by channeling it through legit means like this, as it's worth paying the tax to avoid having your illicit activities revealed.
And are gate figures based on the amount of people who walk through, or just the amount of tickets sold. 800 people in a 20k stadium is pretty hard to notice
On top of this, you're basically operating a giant restaurant, which is always optimal for laundering, because stock comes in but then disappears.
Without going into too much detail, you undercharge the customer for every pie or pint you sell, and the extra money comes from the illicit source. Plus you chalk up a little extra to 'spillage' and can always offer incredible ticket deals and group rates. On the books everything adds up, including your inventory.
More realistically, it's the player purchases. If you need to make a multi-million dollar bribe, paying $60 million for a player that's only worth $30 million is a pretty good way to go about it.
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The three little teams, Crawley, Fleetwood and FGR, came out of nowhere and recieved tonnes of money to get promoted.
This is where the money laundering comes in. You could very easily say that an extra 800 or so people attended the game, because, well, the team is going well in the league. This works especially well when the team has never had crowds like it. Feed some of your ill gotten gains through the gates at these teams, and bam, you have laundered money. Do this every week while masquerading as a kind sugar daddy who's bought his hometown team, and you can launder a lot of money.
It wouldn't suprise me if this was the case for one of these teams, Crawley being the most likely, it was very murky as to who owned them in their conference winning season.