It's funny that they put in all this technical effort and just ended up laundering the money in the same crappy way that drug dealers in the '80s did. I would think they could have found a better way then just buying expensive things.
I was a bit confused by that part of the article. It mentioned "Rolex watches and expensive cars" as examples of the things bought to launder the money. But both of those have unique identifiers (rolex S/N, car VIN) which in both cases is recorded on sale. Surely that makes them terrible ways to launder money? Am I missing something?
Like buying bitcoins.
Millions taken and all they've impounded so far is a couple of cars and watches? I was expecting ... more.