I know money from drugs, robberies, stolen goods, etc is “dirty” but, how does anyone know it’s dirty? Why can’t you just spend your money?
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You can – up to a point. You can simply pay cash for as much as possible, but as soon as you start to pay for things costing amounts people don’t normally pay in cash, the jigs going to be up fairly quickly. if your incomes 100% dirty, that means you are going to be driving a very cheap car, living in a cheap apartment, holidays are going to be in home country etc.
This is in part why there are a lot of low level criminals in their late teens and early twenties – the sort of stuff most people want to buy at that age is fairly easy to buy with dirty money, that pimpin $350 gold chain or sovereign ring you’ve been thinking was way above your price range for the last few years, or that $150 bottle of champagne to impress a girl. Once you are at the stage of life where you want to buy the real deal $15k gold chain, and the girls only gonna be impressed with a trip to the Bahamas in a luxury hotel where they take your credit card on entry and charge everything to that, it’s not so attractive – you have to go straight or go big and clean the cash.
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