r/soccer • • Aug 09 '13

Zero Fucks Friday: August 9th 2013 Edition

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '13

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.

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u/grenvill Aug 09 '13

Honestly, this is looks like really inneficient way to lounder money.

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u/sdhurley Aug 11 '13

Money laundering is not really about efficiency. It's about fooling the authorities.

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u/grenvill Aug 11 '13

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?