Money Laundering

Goonanana · Post by **Goonanana** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:52 pm

With all these extremely rich businessmen with allegedly dodgy backgrounds suddenly interested in buying football clubs, has anyone considered Money Laundering as a motive?

As we all know, one of the major problems for people making a lot of money through illegal or unscrupulous means is that there is an inherent difficulty in spending this money without getting caught. Now the only way around this is making the money clean i.e. Laundering it. For example, you buy a ferarri with Â£100,000.00 of dirty cash, take it back the next week for a refund and voila you have Â£100,000.00 of lovely untraceable money from the good honest people at ferrarri - ok bad example but you get the idea

Now take Arsenal for example:

Turnover of Â£200 million pounds and a pre-tax profit of around Â£5million. Thats 195 million pounds which has vanished on wages and loans etc and come back as lovely clean money from spectators, legitimate TV companies and honest people buying merchandise.

Is there any other business in the world where so much money comes in and out every week guaranteed? Also is there any other business where people won't ask so many questions as to why you dont mind losing some money - you've got an easy answer, "i love the game"!

Would you swap Â£30million of dodgy money (no transfers mentioned) that could have you thrown in the slammer for Â£25 million of sweet smelling honest UK pounds?

Makes you wonder

gunners-need-steel · Post by **gunners-need-steel** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:06 pm

True, goonana ...

all the more reason that the govt should take interest in the trend of ownerships of british clubs. Even uefa and other notable football people have raised concerns about this, but it seems our government is not interested at all.

EdgeOfTown · Post by **EdgeOfTown** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:10 pm

I'm quite sure these people are using football clubs as a "legit" means to pass dodgy foreign money around, and dont like it one bit..Come to think of it, there's not one owner of any of the PL teams I'd want anywhere near our club..Apart from Steve Gibson- a local lad putting his own money into the club he loves, which in theory, the majority of our shareholders can relate to, apart from recent tradings of course..

highburyJD · Post by **highburyJD** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:22 pm

also a future russian duma may try and retrieve ill-gotten oligarch roubles

Post by **REB** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:39 pm

highburyJD wrote:also a future russian duma may try and retrieve ill-gotten oligarch roubles

a very simplistic view,, maybe a future english duma might try and retrive the current directors ill gotten money, money that was handed down to them but im sure you think that was all legal now wasnt it,,, didnt the hill woods run mills and put thousands on the poverty line,why does our major share holder live in geneva and not pay his taxs to the crown,, i think he list could go on

im not pro usmanov but im not pro the current board either,, id like to make up my own mind thanks and not the bull put forward by the board now when they are running scares,,

gus ceasar is a legend · Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:51 pm

Money laundering????????

Try and buy Arsenal Football Club! Thats a nice quiet under the radar way to do it!

I mean who would notice a 40 stone Eastern European trying to buy one of the elite English clubs!?

Sssshhhh before the press and the fans hear anything about this!

Post by **Belfast Boy** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:29 pm

rebel gooner wrote:why does our major share holder live in geneva and not pay his taxes to the crown

Aye Rebel, dead on - and you would I s'pose

Post by **REB** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:42 am

Belfast Boy wrote:
rebel gooner wrote:why does our major share holder live in geneva and not pay his taxes to the crown
Aye Rebel, dead on - and you would I s'pose

no but people are slagging off usmanov for his money and how he made it and forgeting that our board are not whiter then white

Post by **Belfast Boy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:07 pm

rebel gooner wrote:
Belfast Boy wrote:
rebel gooner wrote:why does our major share holder live in geneva and not pay his taxes to the crown
Aye Rebel, dead on - and you would I s'pose
no but people are slagging off usmanov for his money and how he made it and forgeting that our board are not whiter then white

Jesus Rebel steady on a bit, I have an off-shore acc. as well does that put me and an international diamond trader in the same bracket as the likes of Usmanov and Abramovich who effectively murdered their way to wealth and power in post Soviet Russia, and in doing so stole from some of the most needy people on earth!

Post by **REB** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:19 pm

im not pro usmanov but i,l reserve my judgement till i know all the facts,, the only point i was trying to make was the current board are not as clean cut as some people think they are

Post by **Belfast Boy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:48 pm

rebel gooner wrote: the current board are not as clean cut as some people think they are

Hate to be the one to tell you this Rebel but NOBODY is whiter than white!

Goonanana · Post by **Goonanana** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:19 am

Except the Michelin man

RaM · Post by **RaM** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:51 am

I'd imagine theres a few albinos who qualify...

Albino players would be pretty cool actually....has there ever been any?

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:22 pm

APPARENTLY DAZ LEAVES YOUR CLOTHES WHITER THAN WHITE.

Post by **REB** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:52 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:APPARENTLY DAZ LEAVES YOUR CLOTHES WHITER THAN WHITE.

is that DAZ 10 UK

you saying the online gooner daz makes your clothes whiter then white