The new issue of Cash Investigation , the famous TV show investigated on France 2 and led by Elise Lucet, focuses on decrypting the business of cannabis. And beware, this is not a small neighborhood grocery but a multinational money laundering. This is also the title of the show on Tuesday night.
Director Nicolas Vescovacci explains the simplicity with which the company launder money: "What surprised me the most is how easy it is to launder money today. financial - I'm not talking about banks, but hidden financial services - that are in the hands of secret bankers, who provide services like a bank at the corner of the street, except that they allow you to launder huge sums of money. It's extremely easy to launder money, including tens of millions of euros. "
"I already had 12 to 15 million euros to me, ranged"
This multinational is actually a chain where each punctures its small part, from the small hand to the big manitou who sits at the top of the pyramid. Like this trafficker that Cash Investigation has met.
His testimony, on the show, is interpreted by an actor because the trafficker did not wish to speak in front of the camera: "At the best of my form, I could bring back up to 2 tons per month. between 12 and 15 million euros to me, ordered.The ideal is to have annuities.Because I reinvest 50% of my money and 30% are sheltered for my old age. I have already laundered money in France, in transport companies or telephony, which needed liquidity.These companies bring me today between 15 and 20,000 euros per month.In Morocco, it must bring me around 70,000 euros and in Algeria between 30 and 40,000 euros per month ".
"One network has laundered more than 250 million euros, under low assumption"
Nicolas Vescovacci details the extent of money laundering: "We have been interested in a single international money laundering network and we estimate the bleached amounts to more than 250 million euros.It is possible that this is a low assumption and that these amounts exceed the billion euros between 2008 and 2015. Imagine 1 billion euros in cash, laundered by a lot of people, whether drug traffickers or tax evaders. is a lot of money circulating in these clandestine circuits ".
Note to fans of Cash Investigation , the show on Tuesday evening is broadcast in the second half of the evening because of sensitive subject.