Comments on: More about Eur500 notes and crime https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/more-about-eur500-notes-and-crime/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Claude Sciberras https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/more-about-eur500-notes-and-crime/#comment-1163168 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:29:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35378#comment-1163168 Apart from this which is probably true, 500 euro notes are very useful for travellers for reasons of portability. Like all things in life things can be used for positive or negative reasons.

[Daphne – Nobody carries cash anymore when travelling, Claude. We all have cards nowadays. The most you will need is a few notes for the taxi when you get there, and there is no way on earth you are going to get away with presenting a taxi driver with a Eur500 note.]

]]> By: Silvio Farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/more-about-eur500-notes-and-crime/#comment-1161608 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:53:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35378#comment-1161608 I have been asked by some lawyers for payment in cash (flus kontanti). I assume that if some lawyers receive constant or large payments in cash, they will not be depositing them in the bank. This is for tax evasion purposes.

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