--- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> 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?
I keep wondering why it would be necessary to transfer funds in *cash*, in physical bills. Why not deposit the money in a bank account and have the bank transfer the funds? ------------------------ 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/
