baconpancakes wrote:Just to chime in, Estee & Aslan went to Istanbul with both their mothers so Estee has spent time with his mother.
I haven't kept up w the money situation but do you guys think maybe Aslans' furniture hobby could be a part of it? Like a front for moving money or buying stuff w dirty money & reselling it for a clean profit? Not sure how money laundering works.
I don't think that would be necessary, and he makes so little buying and selling furniture compared to what he is worth, if he wanted to hide his money he could do it by holding it in cash where it would be untraceable ... or by putting it in accounts with Estee's name so that it would no longer be his property, or in business accounts which are slightly harder for the government to work around .. If you deposit large sums into accounts though it will always be noted by government revenue agencies, so if he moves his money into business accounts he will have to pay taxes.
One way to avoid that is to have many small accounts with under 10k in them, but I think it would be much easier to just withdraw the money and hold it in cash ... or buy million pound townhouse without a mortgage through business accounts as a "property developer" (or several and make new income from the renters). He would pay taxes on this as well but considerably less since he would be making very little from rental income compared to his worth, but he would still make enough to keep up their lifestyle.
Sorry for this complicated post, depending on laws in the UK I can't confirm all of this information is 100% correct .. but I imagine Aslan has no problem with the uk laws... since he is in one of the best law schools in the world lol
