Money laundering in Star Citizen
And yeah, this is precisely how (a big op) most of us were looking at this. Though the angle about actually doing it at the scale of having to setup a “blind” company didn’t come into play. But think about it. This “game” has raised over $300m + $46m + $17.6m in investment. Over a 9 yr period. With NO shipped product. And - get this - during a pandemic period, have broken their own fundraising records. Sure, game companies are making money during this period, but not to this extent - and for a company with NO SHIPPED PRODUCT.
Dismissing an important detail here. You still need to find a buyer willing to buy the 1.000$ ship for the 800$, otherwise the whole laundering doesn't work in the described scenario.
And then again you could do this on every resale site for virtual goods. The real chokepoints here is the accounting in the source country (where does X get money to repeatedly buy good x), the transaction channels (banks - why is Y flowing so much money to Z) and to a lesser degree the seller of the good that gets resold - which got explained in the post.
But sure enough criminals are using such where possible. I mean wasn't it the FBI that involved Blizzard because their virtual monies were used for criminal transactions - gold reselling.
