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Is this laundering money?
united-states
Under U.S. law in almost every U.S. jurisdiction this would be illegal conduct. Arnie would be a co-conspirator with Bob in money laundering and in embezzlement of government funds. ...
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Is it tax fraud for an individual to declare non-taxable revenue as taxable income? (US tax laws)
Money Laundering
The primary crime that you have described is called money laundering.
Note that money laundering includes: "structuring financial transactions in order to evade reporting ...
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Is it legal to trade bitcoin for cash in Virginia, USA?
The short answer is that a few individual trades would be legal (e.g. if you sell some to a friend), but doing so on a regular basis for profit (e.g. offering a sale price and a bid price to all ...
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Is it tax fraud for an individual to declare non-taxable revenue as taxable income? (US tax laws)
I have submitted a false tax return
Provided it really is false, you violate 18 USC 1001:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the ...
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Is it possible for an individual to commit money laundering like a bank?
Because money laundering is a form of transnational crime there is an extensive system of treaties which harmonise, to some extent, the laws of most developed countries. Relevantly to your question, ...
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Transferring Paypal money to sons friend
But lately he has had his friend use my PayPal account. Someone will send me money and then I transfer it to where he tells me. To cash app or venmo.
That's money laundering. Definitely illegal.
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On the legality of replacing international transfers with intranational ones
Would this be legal?
Probably at this scale. Not necessarily extrapolated to a large commercial operation involving more parties.
At some point it becomes a payment system and a financial enterprise ...
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Is this laundering money?
Bob and Arnie both hang, for conspiracy, Arnie for bribery and Bob for misuse of public funds. See, there's a right way to do that transaction and they didn't do it.
Bob is required to have a paper ...
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Is it tax fraud for an individual to declare non-taxable revenue as taxable income? (US tax laws)
I don't think any of it is a crime
And it sounds like a lot of work to me. Getting overpaid for it doesn't make you a crook, just one of many overpaid people in society today.
Remember, you assure ...
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Is this laundering money?
This is embezzlement, bribery, fraud, and kickbacks, but it doesn't satisfy many definitions of money laundering. According to the United States Department of the Treasury,
Money laundering is the ...
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Can you buy a luxury car with cash?
Would that be legal?
Yes. But it's also legal for the seller to refuse a cash payment.
Will IRS or FBI or anybody come knocking on the door asking about origin of that money or its taxes or whatever?...
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Can you buy a luxury car with cash?
You can purchase any expensive item for cash, if the seller will accept it. In the US and many other jurisdictions, a seller is not required to accept cash, but many will.
In the US and many other ...
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In Germany, is there a reward for reporting possible tax fraudsters or money launderers to the authorities?
You can report your suspicions to any German police station or any prosecution service (Staatsanwaltschaft). Furthermore, in this case to any tax authority (Finanzamt). Your report may be made ...
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Making bad movies as money laundering scheme?
Suppose you want to pay for your son's college tuition with cocaine sales proceeds. You hire your son as an actor in your miserable movie and pay him $90,000 for doing so. The movie is produced by a ...
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If I pay someone to place a sports bet that wins, have I committed money laundering?
No. Money Laundering is the act of taking money that was made as a result of criminal activity and turning it into "clean" money. There are a number of ways this occurs, and there may be ways to do ...
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Are identifiable cryptocurrency miners helping crime?
Here are the suggested federal jury instructions for aiding and abetting:
To "aid and abet" means intentionally to help someone else commit a
crime. To establish aiding and abetting, the ...
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If all the money that comes in and out of my account are by means of cheques and credit cards, can I still commit money laundering?
You can be charged. The criminal act is defined here and here. A core defining feature of violation of The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 is
knowing that the property involved in a financial ...
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How does the Bank Secrecy Act affect normal law-abiding citizens?
None
First, only cash transactions are reportable: electronic and cheque transactions aren't. The only ones that will be reported are your single withdrawal and deposit.
As you say $10,000 is not a ...
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Why is Silk Road criminal but not LocalBitcoins?
It comes down to intent
... and possibly responses to illegal activity.
Localbitcoins intention is to facilitate trade in bitcoins - in itself a legal undertaking. Cryptocurrancy transactions can be ...
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Are charities prevented from paying money to other charities?
It looks to me as if "money laundering" is a misunderstanding; though any organization has a duty to prevent this, charities have no special responsibilties.
However, charity law does in general ...
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Can a business which only loses money be a "money laundering" method?
Sure
You run a restaurant employing relatives and cronies and you scrupulously pay them and their taxes. Say $500k. That is clean money.
You take some money from running the restaurant but not enough ...
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Would a bitcoin "cleaning" service be legal in New Zealand?
The applicable law is the New Zealand Anti-Money Laundering law. The regulations describing exactly what is covered don't mention Bitcoin cleaning, but the "wire transfer" and "currency exchange" bits ...
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Could you explain the concept of money laundering in simple terms?
Laundering physical money
Let's say a career criminal committed a couple crimes and is now in possession of a large heap of money in form of coins and paper currency. They want to use that money to ...
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Is it legal to trade bitcoin for cash in Virginia, USA?
You will also need to file your taxes properly
The IRS and state will view this as a sale of a security. Any capital gain must be reported on your taxes, i.e. your normal Form 1040 that you file ...
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Cash deposits and money laundering in the UK
In what way is this person "reasonably suspected of involvement in, or of being connected to a person involved in, serious crime": having cash is not enough to create a reasonable suspicion of this. ...
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How are the Localbitcoins.com founders safe from money laundering laws?
The developers of the site localbitcoins.com are providing a service that is not itself illegal. They explain their service and its limitations in their Terms of Service (my emphasis):
All trades ...
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