--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/2/06 3:38 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > There are probably few countries that impose legitimate fees or > > taxes on moving money -- it's more likely that it was done to avoid > > paying bribes to customs officials when they saw a large amount of > > currency there for dipping into. When you leave/enter the USA, you > > need to declare whether you have more than $10K in cash/etc., or you > > could be heavily fined, but there is just about zero possibility of > > a USA customs official asking for a bribe, unlike many countries > > around the world where this is SOP: > > > > http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/kbyg/money.xml >
> So moving money from Spain to Switzerland, which Leon Weiner was arrested > for doing, would have involved paying a bribe to some officials? > **************** Possibly if he had declared the money when leaving Spain, as he would have to do when leaving the USA, there might have been a concern about having to pay a bribe to Spanish officials at that time -- although there would not have been a problem with having to pay a bribe to a Swiss customs guard, there might well have been a tradition of having to pay off poorly paid Spaniards (Spain in the 70s was pretty poor, no senor?). You are not presenting any evidence of any law requiring payment of fees on transfer of money between countries, and if there were no such fee, then it would be hard to explain why it was necessary to hide the money. Possibly, there was concern about being targeted for a robbery. I remember at MIU in the 70s, Jacob Hahn, the cashier, used to take a different route to the bank from MIU every day to make cash deposits. Even if Spanish guards would not hit you up for a bribe, they might tip off criminals at the passenger's destination. It would also not to be safe to put money in checked baggage, obviously, there is all kinds of theft even in the U.S. from checked baggage to this day. And there is also a problem with other passengers seeing that you have a lot of money -- theft from carryon baggage happens too, easy to do when the courier is sitting in TM. Bottom line: where's your proof to support your thesis that there are laws which require payment of fees to transfer money? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
