Why do people keep getting caught for money laundering?

[SandyCat]

These people keep trying to do it through car washes and shit. Why spend 500 grand on a carwash business when you can just toss it in the washing machine at home? You could probably even get by with putting it in the dish washer or a bucket of water and soap.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

the monkey screams too loud in the machine and it alerts people

 

[JesusChristDenton]

It's not corruption, it's lobbying you stupid fucking CHUD

 

[AirdropShitposts]

I honestly don't know why people do it in the first place, it's just going to get dirty again the instant you give it to someone else and they put it with all their unwashed money. Like, you've never heard that money's fungible, ya dummies?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

because they don't know what they're doing

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

They only catch people they want to catch, usually amateurs. They deliberately leave opportunities open because the CIA etc. also need to launder money, and if they were the only people able to do it, it would be obvious whenever the CIA did anything.

 

[AgendaPoster]

They use cheap detergent

 

[Meat Target]

They aren't using Oxy Clean.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

How are dumbasses getting caught for money laundering when crypto exists?

 

[SandyCat]

How are dumbasses getting caught for money laundering when crypto exists?

To my understanding most crypto currency is only pseudo anonymous, the glowies can still see what gets sent where more or less

 

[Waifu Days]

They're not dressing up like the Cursed Bandit Ghost of Carlsbad Caverns like in Scooby-Doo.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

People forget to take their blood stained clothes out of the lavenderia so the special agents find it, do some forensic dna analysis, and find the perpetrator.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

They're not dressing up like the Cursed Bandit Ghost of Carlsbad Caverns like in Scooby-Doo.

That's the problem; they should dress as The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera, and say they're only laundering money as a parody/homage to famous launderers of the past.

 

[rel=alternate]

They only catch people they want to catch, usually amateurs. They deliberately leave opportunities open because the CIA etc. also need to launder money, and if they were the only people able to do it, it would be obvious whenever the CIA did anything.

It is also just very hard to catch to be honest.

If you are clever about it, there are so many ways you can launder money efficiently without ever raising any red flags. If you have money, you won't have any trouble finding a lawyer to help you with this. With the right structure, you can also optimize your taxes significantly on the money you launder.

Most people who launder money don't get caught because they launder money. They get caught laundering money because they raised attention on themselves another way. And it's just so much easier to follow money than it is anything else.

Unless we are talking hundreds of millions, laundering money is not that difficult if you are willing to be disciplined.