Comment by chaz6
2 days ago
In the UK one of the best ways to launder money is to open a barber shop. Most people pay cash and unless they are going to watch every shop to see how many customers go through there's simply no way to police it effectively. I have heard that the shop owner will get a commission on any laundered money.
Same in Chile. A while ago our version of FBI closed 12000 barber shops along the country under an investigation on money laundering. It's so obvious it's ridiculous. 20 barber shops in the same street (we don't have a barber district btw), many of them working 24/7.
This is if you want to launder 50k. If you want to launder 500k, not so much, and if you have 50M, not at all.
It's horizontally scalable
to a point. How many barbershops can you open in a single city without raising suspicion? In my city eyebrows started raising at the fourth candy shop