HOW DO CRIMINALS CLEAN DIRTY MONEY

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The video uses a relatable and humorous animated character to explain a complex topic (money laundering) in a simple, step-by-step manner. The visual storytelling effectively illustrates the process and its outcome, making it engaging and easy to understand.

Summary

The video explains how criminals can launder dirty money by using a legitimate-looking cash business, like a food truck, to create fake transactions. By declaring profits and paying taxes on them, the illicit funds are converted into officially clean money.

Structure

1Criminals turn dirty cash into clean money
2Yogi has £100,000 he can't explain
3Trying to deposit large amounts of unexplained cash leads to prison
4Yogi opens a burger van to legitimize his money
5He creates fake transactions to hide the dirty money
6Declares profits and pays taxes, making the money clean

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HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) - The UK's tax authority. It appears as a document and is mentioned in relation to tax questions and concerns. Removing it would change the context of the video regarding tax implications. It merely appears.

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So how do criminals actually turn dirty cash into clean money? Yogi has a serious problem. He's just come into £100,000 he can't explain. Walking into a bank with a suitcase full of notes and HMRC questions will start asking questions. And that leads to one place, prison. So Yogi needs to make that dirty cash look completely legitimate. He opens a small cash-only burger van. Every day around 50 real customers show up and buy a burger. But when the coast is clear, he punches 200 extra transactions into the till. Customers that don't exist. Then he lifts the dirty cash and drops it straight into the drawer. As far as HMRC is concerned, nothing suspicious is happening here. Yogi just had a very busy week. Come year end, he files £100,000 declared in profits. HMRC writes back: Brilliant, you owe us £20,000. And Yogi pays it without hesitation. Why? Because that remaining £80,000 is now officially clean money. He can walk into any bank and deposit it. He can buy the car, the house, whatever he wants. HMRC doesn't see a criminal, they just see a working man. That's one of the most common ways criminals wash dirty money. Follow to see how money.