Money laundering taints wine trade | South China Morning Post
▻http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1342072/money-laundering-taints-wine-trade
Purchasing vineyards is an excellent method to launder money. Reports have emerged of prospective vineyard owners in France offering to pay in cash, which should throw up a red flag. Moreover, the price of wine is never fixed; it is easy to over- or under-invoice. Paying in cash is not atypical; and perhaps best of all, it has all the trappings of high society.
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