How do gangsters get away with it?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:01 pm
There is a suberb of London where many criminals live (I'm sure this isnt the only one, but this particualr place I am familiar with). I had pointed out to me by someone I know who lives there two houses that are owned by major criminals, they are two of many who live in the area, and the houses they own (which are huge) were bought with drug money. These guys have never worked, they are known to the Police, they are two of London's biggest drug dealers, and they've bought themselves houses that cost millions of pounds (for cash) and there is little the authorities can do. How can this be?
To grow up in a small flat in some run down neighbourhood in urban London, to have never worked and to be a known drug dealer, to have your collar felt by the Police a few times, and then a few years later buy yourself a multi-million pound pad for cash - it is so obvious this money has come from crime. I was told these men get visited by the Police every few months or so, basically whenever somethng major goes down (like a load of drugs are found in a shipping container entering the country somewhere). Imagine how annoying it is for the Police, who work hard for not a huge salary, and they arrive at one of these mansions.
The Police know it was all bought with drug money, they can't prove it, but they know. They enter, the guy denies everything, so they leave again. Looks like crime DOES pay. Also, how do they turn the money 'clean'? It all comes in in cash through drug deals, somehow it has to be cleaned up and put in legitimate bank accounts so the guy can buy the house and the three expensive cars outside it. I wonder how they do that. It's not like you can arrive at your bank each week with ?10,000 in dirty notes and just stick it in your account.
To grow up in a small flat in some run down neighbourhood in urban London, to have never worked and to be a known drug dealer, to have your collar felt by the Police a few times, and then a few years later buy yourself a multi-million pound pad for cash - it is so obvious this money has come from crime. I was told these men get visited by the Police every few months or so, basically whenever somethng major goes down (like a load of drugs are found in a shipping container entering the country somewhere). Imagine how annoying it is for the Police, who work hard for not a huge salary, and they arrive at one of these mansions.
The Police know it was all bought with drug money, they can't prove it, but they know. They enter, the guy denies everything, so they leave again. Looks like crime DOES pay. Also, how do they turn the money 'clean'? It all comes in in cash through drug deals, somehow it has to be cleaned up and put in legitimate bank accounts so the guy can buy the house and the three expensive cars outside it. I wonder how they do that. It's not like you can arrive at your bank each week with ?10,000 in dirty notes and just stick it in your account.