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Top cop: gangsters are muscling in on Scottish nurseries to launder cash



Gangsters are using NURSERIES to launder drug money after a police crackdown on dodgy taxi companies and security firms.

Crime lords have been forced to branch out into other businesses because the cops have started quietly warning customers off their traditional "front" companies.

And police say daycare centres for toddlers are among the firms where criminal cash is now being "washed".


Strathclyde assistant chief constable George Hamilton told Police Review magazine yesterday: "As you put the squeeze on parts of the service sector, like private security, these people move into other areas."

And a police source said: "We've had firms closing and pretty much opening the next day, with the same people behind them.

"But those people now seemingly run a nursery or a gardening company."

Officers seized financial paperwork from a nursery in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, last year. And weeks later, detectives said they were investigating as many as a dozen nurseries in the west of Scotland with suspected gangland links.

Crooks launder money through nurseries by creating fictitious "ghost children" and claiming that their parents pay in cash.

Gangsters' wives and girlfriends are installed as bosses of the nurseries because they don't have criminal records.

Hamilton says police have starved Scotland's crime gangs of £27million in 15 months by tipping off the customers of "front" companies that they are doing business with crooks.

The Record's source said the tactic had been a great success. He added: "It leads to contracts being quietly torn up, which cuts off major funding to the gangs."


http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

you should try reading some quality news

this is gutter press,always unfounded sensationalist nonsense.
is this where the good captain got his tutelage

btw what qualifications do you have to journo for taxitalk

That's just like saying what qualifications do you have for posting on TDO!!

Or what qualifications do any of us have for writing anything!!

The day free speech and press are supressed will be a sad day!!

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Kind regards,

Brummie Cabbie.

Type a message, post your news,
Disagree with other members' views;
But please, do have some decorum,
When debating on the TDO Forum.

It's easier just telling him to f*ck off

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

sarcasm not your thing then brummie

the good cap'n started it

and thats not very nice cap'n im only pointing out the obvious

and why get someone else to tell me to feck off

then again thats not your style is it,you'd rather encourage others to do your dirty work,one only has to look at fastblacks to see how low you will sink

pathetic

There's gangsters all over the PH and Taxi trade in Scotland. They move them out of one area they'll move into another. Anywhere they can launder dirty money you'll find it's gangster run.

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

What you on about now you numbty?

I'm quite sure Brummie can and will tell you to feck off.

As for my style? WTF do you know about my style?........we know what your style is.....get a plate for f*ck all and attach it to a shed. Via lots of help from the late JD whom its been stated on here you subsequently sh*fted???

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

And the trade in England is squeaky clean, I suppose?

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

oh my someones upset

my plates were hardly free £1300 a piece

my sheds still on the road yours aint

why bring the late jd into this i have nno idea

jd helped us plenty.and helped me a lot when it came to my own case.
and i made no secret about it i am and always will be gratefull to the man.

would you kindly explain what you mean by i sh#fted him

I aint upset......just merely mentioning what has already been mentioned.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

by whom and when exactly i certainly cant remember.

you obviously can remember so back up what you say if you can

Nope.....I can remember, but it's a scurrilous accusation, tell you what.....prove us wrong.



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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

didn't think you could

more empty words
from the empty headed journo

you really are becoming a captain of mistruths cap'n

and theirs no us in u

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Where did I say that??

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2