They do a lot of money laundering operations. Sometimes they ship money out in suitcases from their front businesses to a contact overseas.
My guess would be they use all types of transactions to withdraw and preserve their money.
Okaly dokaly.
Wonder if our country keeps tabs of where these wires are consistently sent (particularly high dollar amounts) and whether the capability of putting the sender info together with the recipient info has been done on anything more than a case-by-case basis. If not, it's a great opportunity missed.
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I think you hit on the reason for 'empty' suitcase, they collected $$$