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Topic
Board Gambling discussion
Re: Crypto Casinos vs money laundering.
by
smartaction
on 20/10/2022, 07:17:57 UTC
Let's be honest, money laundering is the best thing that can happen to a casino and there is where most of high rollers comes from. I have seen some rollers in the past that runs some huge scams and then go to the casinos to play with the scammed money and with that justify where they get the money from after hitting some huge wins.

Nowadays most casinos has KYC, but i don't think that is enough to stop the money laundering, what casinos should do is to investigate the source of the deposits to fight against this illegal activity, but that will not happen because is a win-win game from them.

So, what do you say, does crypto casinos really care about money laundering?
As almost every casino has KYC system where kyc is required when someone invests huge money or wins huge amount.  In that case I don't think a crypto casino can be a big cause of money laundering.  Because if someone is doing money laundering there then his identity will be revealed due to KYC so I don't think anyone will choose crypto casino as a money laundering route.
KYC can prevent money laundering cases, but money launderers are smart enough to move their funds from one place to another and know how much money they can spend in one place. Of course, they are so experienced in money laundering that it can make it difficult for casinos and other places of business to trace the source of that person's funds.

If there are customers who often play at the casino and spend very large sums of money and have a close relationship with the casino owner, it will make it easier for them to launder their money there because the casino owner will not suspect them.
If they have a close relationship with the owner of that casino then it is possible for them to launder money through that platform and since the money launderers are very smart now maybe there are many who own each casino themselves and they launder money through their own casino and in different places.  Millions of dollars are smuggled
Yes, I also thought that the money launderers could set up their own casinos to launder their money easily. They can also get permits from the local government to open casinos and attract government employees to work for them from behind the scenes. This will make it easier for them to launder their money because they already have relationships with government employees to protect their casinos. And other money launderers may also be using the casino to do the same, making even more of a clean government to investigate.
Money launderers always have a good relationship with various government officials and banks and they also have a good relationship with the government because of which they can launder billions of money out of the country in various ways. If the government does not support them, they are easily caught.  But in countries where crimes like money laundering are committed, the government or powerful people of the ruling party are definitely involved and they give shelter to all the problems.