investingdog, they done it in the past and they do it now.
It has been proved by example (Merck and others) that there is nothing difficult about it.
Certainly not if you use Swiss bank accounts, because in Switzerland disclosing banking information or helping in disclosing it is a CRIME with JAIL penalty!
I don't know if you know but Switzerland still has 'named accounts'. You chose a name "Joe Do III" and they setup the account with an access system, no real names involved, mostly only one specific bank rep. that knows you and can connect you to the account! Investigators would need the account name which they don't have unless someone confessed.
I can give you a hundred of ways, not even including government alternative for secret agency sponsoring, that can be used by private companies, say BPs, to get cash out! Here is one.
BP sets up a Channel Island coordination company, mainly justified for tax reasons. BP orders a consultancy report for 10Milj$ from some Cayman Island company also set-up for the purpose by an independent entity that knows what game will be played and what profits they will make. That company actually sends a REAL report, that BP dept produced themselves and that they are really going to use. Say a study of BaviCloacktiMab which will lead them to the conclusion that they are not interested in that drug or it's IP.
The Cayman Island company now has 10Milj$. They channel it into private pockets (eg: via coupons on holder, anonimus if you can collect them in the Caymans, which they can because they are there!) Now, this private person sets up a "John Bavimax" named account in Switzerland and funds it. The account information and access information is given to the Channel Island company. Could be more then one account but just for the concept demonstration we do it with one.
Another intermediate, that has no idea of where the funding came from, can now be contacted by a person that doesn't disclose who he works for and be asked to set-up the sabotage. The saboteur will receive the name John Bavimax and the access information to the Swiss account. Traces? Zero, at the best the saboteur could describe the intermediary, which possibly is a Russian that you cannot investigate, maybe a car or license number, or point to the use of a credit card if they discussed the deal over dinner and the intermediate was sufficiently stupid to not pay cash, but usually people in the business are quite intelligent!
But that is where it ends! You cannot investigate in Switzerland, you can't even provide an account reference because you don't have any! You don't even have the name of the one that has setup the account in Switzerland! The Cayman Island company, if you EVER manage to make the link to them, CAN, but doesn't have to, show you an order for a consultancy mission, a report, a payment but behind that you'll find anonymous share holders collecting coupons! For any Cayman investigator, where they are quite allergic to bank related transfers (I believe just ASKING bank information about another person is punishable there - at least it used to be and probably still is), that information will suffice to say the Cayman Island company conducts a legit business. That is where ALL your funding prove ENDS!
The Channel Island is mostly INVISIBLE to this operation, it really does its CORE business, namely optimizing taxes and they'll have one well paid guy sitting in an office (or even working from home and only exist on the payroll) that will work with the intermediary! Your investigation will never go there.
The Russian operative gets rich in order to stay out of the attention. In the best case you'll know there is a Russian involved because they have an accent, but its not like there is only one of them visiting the US, is there!
So bottom line, if a BP is prepared to throw some millions around knowing they get BILLION back for it in more business or less business decrease they do it! Remember it is one of the LEAST ETHICAL industries in the WORLD! They don't want to cure you, they want to keep you in treatment for the rest of your live by preference, smoothing pain, increasing comfort, prolonging your live and cashing.
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