Roman's interest in Chelsea

[Danks81]

Could Chelsea be nothing more than a high-profile way of laundering money from his dirty dealings in Russia?

[Andy Bennett]

How does spending money in one of the world's major financial centres, (and also one of the most tightly controlled), enable you to launder money? If he wanted to do that he would take it to Switzerland or some pip-squeak financial centre like, say, er, Madrid, for instance.

Bearing in mind there are still questions being asked about the, shall we say, controversial, sale of Madrid's sports ground to the local government on which they then gave planning permission to build office blocks, (one of which they gave back back to Real Madrid so they could keep earning the income from), I suggest you STFU.

[nicephoras]

Could Chelsea be nothing more than a high-profile way of laundering money from his dirty dealings in Russia?

That would make sense, if, say, players were purchased for 500M pounds, and could then quickly be resold for that amount. But they can't. So how exactly would you launder money by buying players? The point of laundering money is buying assets with dirty money that can be resold to get clean money. Who in the world is going to pay 20M again for Roberto Carlos?
Charity and money laundering are not synonyms.

[Achtung]

Charity and money laundering are not synonyms.

I cannot believe what a bunch of losers we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in the dictionary.

[nicephoras]

I cannot believe what a bunch of losers we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in the dictionary.

:D I'd been thinking exactly the same thing. The problem is, I've had to take seminars on the horror that is Sarbanes Oxley (essentially the anti-Enron law), among other things, so I sort of know how it might work. Not too well, mind you, but a little bit.
And the point is, you can't launder money if you spend it on things that will bring you nothing in return. Roberto Carlos can't be resold for 20M. And he has to be paid. A lot.

[Clan]

Could Chelsea be nothing more than a high-profile way of laundering money from his dirty dealings in Russia?

:rolleyes:

Closed.