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In reply to the discussion: Deutsche Bank loans to Trump co-signed by Russian Oligarchs. [View all]lapfog_1
(31,920 posts)Persons A through K deposit large sums of dirty money into a bank willing to look the other way.
Person T (the patsy) goes to the same bank and says "I want to borrow a billion dollars" and, btw, here are a list of people willing to co-sign the loan, all of which have a lot of assets.
Bank says (wink and a nod)... sure thing, here is your money... and here is the interest and repayment (very low, very lax).
now Person T has a large amount of cash to go invest in real estate or something... the real estate is an asset valued at whatever Person B says he paid for it.. and, who knows, maybe it is worth that much.
The co-signers of the loan agreement will have first dibs on those deeds and titles... and they can then turn around and go to OTHER BANKS and say, see, I have this deed to this property that I and my partner just purchased... please loan me X million dollars to be deposited in YOUR bank which I will use for whatever. Bank B says... ok, that looks fine, we don't need to see the source of your the money you used to purchase this property as there is NO lean against it, only a promissory note to repay it.
see, money from criminal source is now all clean and tidy... and no taxes were ever paid on any of it, not only that, but whatever payments made to the shady bank in the forms of interest can be deducted from your taxes (especially true for real estate deals by developers). Person T makes out like a bandit just on the tax avoidance alone.