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Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by rgmerk on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:14AM (#38840832)
It doesn’t sound like he did.

Laundromats would have been ideal for this kind of, well, money laundering. In a pre-digital era, who’s going to check that the number of cycles on the washing machines line up exactly with the takings?

Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:36AM (#38840987)
An auditor or private investigator, but granted, there's a lot of room for tax evasion - there's a reason a lot of businesses and contractors will gladly take cash, tax evasion being one, most digital transaction costing them money being another. It's fairly common in my country (NL) to see signs saying "please pay in cash" and "€0.25 surcharge if paying with debit card for amounts below €20"
Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by yurishimo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:50AM (#38841555)
Around where do you live? Anecdotally, I don't see much of any of that in Eindhoven or the surrounding villages.
Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by planede on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:44AM (#38842100)
Correlating with water and electricity bills could raise suspicion, but yeah, it's probably harder.
Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by bell-cot on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:49PM (#38845333)
Maybe? Pre-digital machines would keep no tamper-proof record of usage. And a good variety of machines in your laundromat (with varying appetites for water and electricity) could discourage all but the most fanatical of auditors.