Comment:
Gone are the days when proceeds of drug trade and other illicit activities used to be collected in currency notes and ferried around in brownbags. Big time black money nowadays happens via digital payments and cryptocurrencies.
Ironically, it has become more challenging for cops to control crimes like drug trafficking in the era of digital payments.
In the good old days of cash, drug dealers supplied drugs and collected cash on delivery. When cops caught them, they had drugs and cash. That’s proof of sale and constitutes adequate evidence to prosecute them for drug trafficking, which carries long jail sentences.
Now, with digital payments, junkies prepay with Paypal, Goldmoney, Payeer, Bitcoin, https://diazepamshops.com etc. Drug dealers use bots to flip the money around till it reaches a digital wallet that only they know about. They then deliver the merchandise without collecting any money. On the way back, if they’re caught by cops, at worst they have some drugs in their possession but no cash. They can’t find the dealers’ digital wallets through legal methods of evidence collection. Even if they extract it from the dealer by using unsavory means, they still can’t link a given junkie’s prepayment to the balance in the digital wallet. As a result, law enforcement now lacks evidence of sale. Ergo, cops can prosecute the dealers only for possession, which is a minor charge compared to drug trafficking and often attracts no / short prison time.
Things have changed drastically. I have no hesitation in agreeing with you that you’re “old timer”.