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| Subject: Are cigarettes the underworld's Bitcoin? Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:22 am | |
| They say the King of Cocaine, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, was once the world's seventh-richest person, who spent $US2500 a month on rubber bands to wrap his cash and every year would lose around $US2 billion in notes damaged by hungry rats or rising damp.
In Australia drug dealers have filled baths, walls, ceilings and industrial strength garbage bags with cash, waiting for the right time to launder the proceeds. When Melbourne gangster Dennis Allen died 30 years ago, he left millions buried around Richmond that would by now be the world's most expensive garden mulch, while one local drug dealer paid off his back tax bill with slightly musty cash he has kept in his ceiling for years.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/are-cigarettes-the-underworlds-bitcoin-20171213-h04d5x.html |
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