My friend's operation in Tonga
Liberty Reserve operates as a no-questions-asked alternative to the global banking system, with little more than a valid e-mail needed to open an account and move money across borders and is one the most popular currencies for cybercriminals.
Liberty Reserve's founder, Arthur Budovsky, has just now been indicted in the United States along with six other people in a US$6 billion money-laundering scheme described as "staggering" in its scope, authorities said yesterday. He was arrested in Spain on Friday. A defendant identified as Budovsky's partner, Vladimir Kats, was in custody in New York.
The inquiry involved law enforcement in 17 countries and "is believed to be the largest money laundering prosecution in history", the prosecutor's office said, "processing at least 55 million illegal transactions worldwide for one million users, including 200,000 in the US."
It makes my friend's operation in Tonga look tiny by comparison ☺
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A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk. And if they have avocados, get 6." A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?" He replied, "They had avocados." (If you're female, I'm sure you're going back to read it again! Males will get it the first time.)
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