Qin Wan 'er smiled and said, "Now do you understand why he doesn't do online e-commerce business?"
"I understand." Xu Yun nodded. "The business model of online e-commerce is recorded. How many orders there are, how many goods are delivered. Unless he finds a large number of people to clear the orders and empty the packages, but this kind of thing is relatively easy to be exposed. He might even encounter some people who take advantage of the loophole in the orders and use the rules to cheat him of his money."
"That's right." Qin Wan 'er said, "Because the online sales are fake, the order fraud will be discovered sooner or later. As we all know, the online e-commerce sales are definitely more extensive than the offline physical stores because the online e-commerce sales are for consumers nationwide, while the physical stores are only for consumers in Shen Jiang."
"And then?" Xu Yun asked.
"Because his sales are particularly high, as long as he pays enough taxes, all the black money can be easily converted." Qin Wan 'er said, "If he wants to make the ratio of online e-commerce and physical stores more appropriate, he will not only spend a lot of money on order fraud, but also pay more taxes. This means that he will have a considerable amount of unnecessary consumption."
Xu Yun nodded. It was true.
As a smart person, he would definitely choose to give up this aspect. After all, this was just a cover for money laundering, not a real store that relied on elites to make a living.
"This practice is particularly difficult to investigate. If there is no problem in the account book, there is no way to make any correction." Qin Wan 'er shook her head helplessly.
"If that's the case, is there really nothing you can do now?" Xu Yun asked.
Qin Wan 'er sighed, "Even if there is no way, we have to find a way. Now I am particularly hoping to find evidence of his money laundering in the casino in Hong Kong and Macau."
"This is also particularly troublesome for you." Xu Yun said.
"Yes." Qin Wan 'er said, "And now I even suspect that he colludes with his overseas children to launder money through overseas investments. It is also difficult to find evidence of him."
"He still has children abroad?" Xu Yun frowned. This was indeed more difficult to investigate.
And it was simpler.
The suspect could raise the price of the imported equipment and raw materials when importing some things. The foreign suppliers were his own children. Everything became simpler. The money was not illegally obtained. It was completely clean money.
Then, he could also tamper with the export. The suspect was a clothing manufacturer, so he could totally suppress the export price and use the method of making the invoice amount far lower than the actual transaction amount. The difference in payment would be transferred to a foreign account by his children who were responsible for the "import" link overseas.
It was very difficult to investigate the establishment of a personal account in an overseas bank.
In fact, such methods were not uncommon. Some companies' overseas branches had even evolved into professional money laundering centers.
It was too easy for the children who stayed overseas to launder their dirty money by setting up a shell company.
This might also be the reason why many rich and powerful people would choose to send their children abroad.
Even in countries where it was difficult to register a permanent residence, this method could allow the children of these people to easily invest and immigrate.
"In this process, there will be many important people with power, so it will not be easy to make a move," Qin Wan 'er said. "So now, I think the best breakthrough is the casino."
Xu Yun nodded. This was indeed the best breakthrough.
"Whenever he went to gamble, he would definitely return empty-handed," Qin Wan 'er said. Qin Wan 'er said, "According to some of the clues we have now, he will enter the game with tens of millions of chips. After losing a certain amount, he will leave and ask the casino to transfer the rest of the money to his account. This has already set up obstacles for possible investigation."
"Yes, people only notice that he is constantly losing money. But compared to the large losses in the standard money laundering model, the risk of money laundering in the casino is completely acceptable, "Xu Yun said." In fact, the casino is the most traditional place for money laundering. "
Qin Wan 'er looked at Xu Yun seriously. "Do you know anything about this?"
"Someone used this way to launder money a long time ago." Xu Yun said, "In the early days, most of the drug transactions of the mafia were cash transactions. The money was usually stained with white powder. Once caught by the police, it was difficult to get away with it."
Qin Wan 'er was stunned. "Overseas?"
"Yes, of course, overseas. There is no mafia in Hua Xia." Xu Yun smiled. "You just said this. In fact, the mafia members at that time used this method. They brought cash to the casino to exchange it for chips. Once they lost about 10% to 20% of their chips, they would exchange the remaining chips for cash. Logically, the stolen money would become clean income."
Qin Wan 'er sighed. "This is indeed a good method. It seems that there is no shortage of smart people since ancient times."
"In these years of the world economic recession, Asian gamblers are the only customer group that shows a growing trend in casinos," Xu Yun said. "And now it seems to be very popular to use gambling websites to launder money."
And now, compared with some casinos in real life, online casinos seemed to have become a safe haven for money laundering, and it was not banned.
Fortunately, the suspect did not use gambling websites to launder money. If that was the case, it would be more difficult to investigate because the headquarters of gambling websites were mostly located in the Caribbean, which was known as the "tax haven."
Many websites in that place were not supervised by the government at all, and they did not abide by the rules of international casinos. They did not even check the identity information of the customers.
Many smart money launderers would make sure that a gambling website was safe enough to transfer huge amounts of money into accounts opened on these "safe" gambling websites.
Of course, the method was the same as the casinos in real life. They would symbolically gamble once or twice, lose some, and let these gambling websites taste some sweetness.
Then these people would inform these websites that they did not want to play anymore and ask the websites to write a check in the name of the website to return the money in their accounts.
As a result, huge sums of dirty money were easily washed clean and became "clean" income.
And now it had really become a trend. Some people estimated that the amount of "black money" laundered through these hundreds of gambling websites every year was about 800 billion to 1.5 trillion US dollars.
This was obviously a huge and terrifying amount of money.
Even in such a huge and terrifying number, there were still many people's money that had not been counted. For example, the suspect that Qin Wan 'er was investigating now was an outsider. He represented a part of the more "traditional" people who were worried that if these websites wanted to take their money, they would not be able to get it back.
After all, this money was not clean money. Some people's identities could not be reported to the police.
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