Money Laundering

[Xoza]

On 4/23/2019 at 1:01 PM, alexalex303 said:

If money from drug sales is considered money laundering, so should money from robbing stores. It's the same principle. While you could argue that no one would bother tracing money for a robbery, that's true, but people in this game rob six seven stores in a row, and they would most definitively trace money stolen by a robbing crew on a spree.

+1 to all money from illicit activities being dirty.

To add, you'd have to carry this money on you, until it's laundered. Bank wont take it.

[Zion Willard]

+1, if dirty money could be treated as an inventory item and not on your phone/persistently on your person 

[Flucifial]

sure why not +1

[THNDR]

+1

[Vubey]

How NBDY said, they still need to make more illegal activities that are worth for money laundring, the new Bank robberies and soon ATM robberies. Big +1

[Illmohim]

-1

[Vincent Bonelli]

Personally, I think to make things more interesting/realistic, the money laundering should go through registered businesses. A criminal organization is not a business, necessarily, unless they own a legitimate business. Gangs/criminal enterprises would have to work with business partners to setup "fronts" for them to launder their money. This would also open up possibilities for new police units to enforce laws pertaining to fraud/money laundering. 

 

Money laundering, or the use of "dirty money" on its own is a played out/no-rp value element of a lot of communities, so adding it in a similar fashion where everyone has to go through some criminal enterprise is just predictable. 

[Percival]

+1 

Anything that promotes Financial Crime enforcement role-play I'm for. 

This will not only expand roleplay for criminal organizations, but will also have the potential of expanding roleplay for law enforcement factions.

 

My only disagreement is, not all money should be considered dirty money. Every player should two different "CASH' 

- Dirty Cash and Regular Cash.

To pay someone will be to use /pay [dirtycash/cash] [player ID] [amount] 

Players will not be allowed to deposit dirty cash into the Banks or ATM's and could only keep them stashed in their cars, or furniture.

Players will of course be allowed via script to "ATTEMPT" to deposit dirty cash, in the event they run out of regular cash.

- This will automatically sound a silent alarm letting law enforcement know

• Illicit money deposit by John_Smith has been found in Jane_Doe's bank account.

From there, detectives in the LSPD's investigation bureau can launch an investigation into this matter, track down the persons of interest, and acquire that money or any additional illegal possessions. This will give cause to a full scale operation, which could potentially involve SWAT, SAGov auditing a "business" where the individuals are connected to... ENDLESS ROLE-PLAY PEOPLE!

LSPD Investigation Bureau - Financial Crimes Unit (when?)

+1111

This will be a WIN WIN for both sides of role-play. Organized Crime groups will have to be careful in laundering money, and LSPD will have to be meticulous in catching them.

Edited June 25, 2020 by Percival

[Xoza]

+/-

Realistically the only money that would need to be laundered would be stores and banks as they are stolen from a 'legal' system in forcibly put into circulation. Money already in circulation doesn't need to be laundered (drugs) unless it's being purposefully tracked and circulated by law enforcement.