Money laundering in football

[Doc Lynam]

Given the money involved these days do you think football is being used as a tool for money laundering?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Has been used extensively for at least two decades. Here's a report from 2009:

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/ML through the Football Sector.pdf

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

#twats 2006-9

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Roman abramovich

 

[Tooting Gull]

Sure it has.

And even if this Neymar deal is not that - and no evidence to suggest it is - then it is something else that doesn't smell too good. It appears to be state involvement in football (albeit neither of the countries where the clubs involved are based), and Fifa are very strongly against that in many other contexts.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I have long suspected that is the case... That report ,linked by Goldstone, looks very interesting..I will read it later

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Which PL club owners know Uncle Vlad ?

 

[Napier's Knee]

cough cough too many cherries cough cough

 

[severnside gull]

Portsmouth, Cardiff & Birmingham are the most obvious examples.
Crawley another?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

cough cough too many cherries cough cough

Did you know cherry seeds contain cyanide - so don't swallow them with that cough.

 

[Napier's Knee]

of course I'm not implying anything at all but how else to explain this
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/11/bournemouth-lewis-grabban-norwich

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

Obvious one that comes to mind is Croydon Athletic. Owner Mazhar Majeed told the NOTW undercover reporter that he'd only bought them to launder money through the club from the Pakistan Cricket spot and match fixing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cr...ed-arrested-over-money-laundering-claims.html

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[Gritt23]

Given the money involved these days do you think football is being used as a tool for money laundering?

YES!

 

[highflyer]

http://www.theoffshoregame.net/football-is-rotten-to-the-core-time-for-the-government-to-act/

 

[Doc Lynam]

http://www.theoffshoregame.net/the-offshore-league/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18EApxouasJIje_Ynn1YqkHPM4i9w1lKg5zWCLlS9oSQ/pubhtml

This all makes for interesting reading as well!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Given the money involved these days do you think football is being used as a tool for money laundering?

Without doubt the sport is not "clean" - given the sums involved it attracts that sort of person trying to milk the system for quick bucks

 

[NooBHA]

Sure it has.

And even if this Neymar deal is not that - and no evidence to suggest it is - then it is something else that doesn't smell too good. It appears to be state involvement in football (albeit neither of the countries where the clubs involved are based), and Fifa are very strongly against that in many other contexts.

It is unlikely to be Laundered Money coming from Qatar - Simply because it is all State Money coming from the Qatari Royal Family which is earned from the sale of oil. - None of the population in Qatar are required to pay taxes since all services are State Funded. So if there is no tax payable in the country of origin the it cannot really be deemed to be ''Dirty Money''

 

[Jakeg]

Crawley definitely are/ have been money laundering, heard it from someone who works for the governent, another team in north west apparently although it has completely escaped me as to who it was