Eli5: How do high level narco members stay hidden, while living very wealthy?

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I am more talking about the bosses. I just can’t understand what they do with their money to enjoy it. I mean if you are on a most wanted list, I assume you can’t drive around in a 400k luxury car or stay in the biggest house with all the extravagant parties.

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Laundered money.

No large scale criminal organization exists without a way to wash the money. At a local level it can be restaurants, pubs or go-cart track, on paper the business is thriving.

The business is given 10,000 a month cash, now the furniture is leased or stoves, freezers, arcade games. 8000 is washed back through lease payments to the legal arm of Organized crime Group as clean money that can be invested in trucking, real-estate, construction.

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