"When another governor called me to tell me about this, I had already asked someone to look into it."
"This money has already been laundered very cleanly. The chances of recovering all of it..."
Lin Qi shook his head. "I can't say none of it can be recovered, but at most, we can recover sixty or seventy percent. It might even be fifty percent, or less!"
"It depends on what method they used to launder the money. If their method was simpler, more of it can be recovered."
"But their method this time was ancient and complicated, so I don't think much can be recovered."
There were many ways to launder money, such as laundering it through auctions. Those methods were for people who had made preparations to carry out carefully prepared operations.
For large cross-border transfers like this, with powerful forces pursuing the money, slowly preparing and carrying out traceable laundering was basically meaningless.
The flow of money left traces. Regardless of what channels the money passed through, as long as someone kept track of it, whoever possessed it would be an accomplice. Some laundering methods simply wouldn't work.
Lin Qi gave a brief explanation of the method used this time. "I checked. After passing through several banks, the money was quickly dispersed among thousands of independent accounts in different regions."
"Some of these accounts may have received ten or twenty thousand, or perhaps twenty or thirty thousand."
"Then the money was quickly spent in the form of cashier's checks. Unless you can provide evidence that the merchants who accepted those checks were connected to the laundering group..."
Lin Qi wore an expression that seemed to say, You damn well understand what I'm talking about. "Then you have no way to recover the money. You can't even demand that