From: Jonathan Bryce 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Opening a new bank account
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:31:55 +0000

Phil Thompson wrote:

>>OK, I suppose you could.  You could perhaps buy gold bars on your credit
>>card, and pay the bill by cash at the post office.
> 
> I can get a 10 grand balance transfer when I open the credit card
> account, that must have some potential. 10 grand of clean MBNA money
> into account, pay off MBNA with sack full of Roubles via Western Union
> in Moscow or something. Sorted.

That sounds a lot better.  I wasn't too sure what to do with the gold bars
afterwards.

And as a money launderer, you aren't going to be too worried about cash
advance fees or a bit of interest, especially if you have already budgeted
for Western Union fees.