I am posting this here because, while dry, I am very proud of it. I took a ton of research I've done and condensed it down to the bits I (1) will need for the story and (2) I can actually understand. This is JUST the info to kick the book off, I have so much more I need to work out, but I HAVE THIS!!!
(( and no I'm not going to call it that, I'm just enjoying it as a placeholder 😂 ))
What Octavius is already doing at the start of the story:
Laundering money via crypto and luxury real estate sales. The mafia buys crypto with cash obtained from illegal operations. Octavius funnels these crypto transactions through a network of offshore wallets and mixing services to obscure the origin.
Privacy coins are sometimes used sparingly. The legitimate reason to use privacy coins is to protect spending habits from public tracking or enable confidential B2B transactions and payroll. But due to their untraceable nature, privacy coins face severe regulatory pressures. Many centralized cryptocurrency exchanges have delisted certain privacy coins to comply with strict global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.
Running a bunch of shell companies with regular old fiat money transactions. But at this point he has enough data to convince Eddie and Leo that laundering via crypto is easier and more profitable.
What Octavius is about to do, mixing fiat and crypto, is:
Launching the Octavius Sinclair Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Want To Learn How To Do Other Stuff Good Too. Money laundering will be even easier through a charity because:
Non-profits are tax-exempt, have big international networks, and create public trust and a shiny clean image for Octavius and therefore the organization (“reputation laundering”, what a sexy phrase)
Octavius’s own construction company will build it. No laundering needs to be involved here at all. This is done legitimately.
They can amass massive donor-advised fund accounts that will mix thousands of unique public contributions, making it nearly impossible to identify the source of all the money within.
Their own people can make anonymous micro-donations. These would use automated internet platforms and prepaid cards, and break up large volumes of dirty money into hundreds of untraceable low-value donations. Individual micro-donations rarely trigger manual bank or regulatory audits so long as they bypass traditional threshold alerts.
Large donations can also traded for honorary community titles or board positions, providing a veneer of prestige that aids in securing legitimate business capital.
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