Weird Story

 Germany has a fed-office which looks for money-laundering.

There's this couple who came up a couple of months ago....out of Bavaria.  Office sent details to the local police, and they've spent some time looking at them....before detaining them.

The catch?  This guy works for a city office, and he's supposed to go around to parking machines....empty out the coin-boxes.  He's been in this job for roughly 15 years.

So...what he was doing....while walking around....splitting the money....some portion to the city, and some to his pocket.   He had his wife open up several (just guessing a dozen or more bank accounts) accounts.

How much?  Cops figure over the years....he siphoned off 1-million Euro.

I sat and pondered this.  It meant he was taking 500k to 700k Euro a year...in COINS, and quietly depositing them in these local banks.

Now....how his wife explained 4k Euro in coins for a deposit? Unknown...maybe she claimed slot-machine wins.  2,800 visits per year....to a dozen banks?  Well....just doing rough math....that's my figure.

But here's the thing...a dozen years ago....Breaking Bad was on German TV....maybe he got this idea of 'washing' his loot from the TV show. Maybe the wife had a fake-bar, with ten slot machines, and just washed 50k Euro in  coins per week.

Somewhere here....there's a TV script for a 2-hour movie....where 'Huns' and 'Maggie' looted parking machines for a decade.

Added to the story....typically, a parking meter machine only accepts 20-cent, 50-cent, 1-Euro and 2-Euro coins....not bills.