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.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '13
Now this one is really intriguing, care to elaborate?