Leicestershire police won’t say who first told them about Jigar Gheewala, but you can see why, once they had heard of him, they decided to find out more. Gheewala was unemployed, had no apparent income, yet lived in a £1.3m house and sent his three children to private school.(吉瓦拉失业，没有明显收入，却住着豪宅，送孩子上私立学校。) “He was a declared bankrupt(已申报破产的人), with a bank account that was absolutely not reflective of(与……不符，未反映……) what it should be,” said financial crime supervisor Laura Panter of Leicestershire police’s economic crime team. “That was our starting point(起点，切入点).”
莱斯特郡警方不愿透露是谁最先向他们举报了吉加尔·吉瓦拉，但你可以理解，一旦他们听说了他，就决定进一步调查。吉瓦拉没有工作，没有明显收入，却住着价值130万英镑的房子，还把三个孩子送进私立学校。“他申报破产，银行账户状况与其身份完全不符，”莱斯特郡警方经济犯罪团队金融犯罪主管劳拉·潘特说。“这就是我们的切入点。”
Over the course of(在……期间) 2020, despite being on benefits(领取福利金), Gheewala’s bank account received more than £880,000 in cash in 200 different deposits. He was, it turned out, a money launderer(洗钱者), but not the kind you’ll see in the movies. Gheewala’s deposits had been made not in Liechtenstein or on Grand Cayman, but at various post office branches in Leicester, one thick wodge(一叠，一捆) of banknotes after another.
在2020年期间，尽管吉瓦拉领取福利金，他的银行账户却收到了超过88万英镑的现金，分200笔存入。事实证明，他是个洗钱者，但不是你在电影里看到的那种。吉瓦拉的存款并非发生在列支敦士登或大开曼群岛，而是在莱斯特的各个邮局分行，一叠叠厚厚的钞票接连存入。
As banks have closed branches all over Britain, post offices have quietly become central to how we move our money. In 2017, post offices began to accept deposits(存款) on behalf of(代表……) banks, and those deposits now exceed £30bn a year. The way it works is straightforward(简单的，直接的). A customer hands over(交出，递交) banknotes to be counted, then inserts a bank card and enters the pin, like a cashpoint(自动取款机（英式）) in reverse. The post office system then communicates with the bank’s system, which credits(记入贷方，存入) the value of the cash to the account linked to the card.
随着银行在英国各地关闭分支机构，邮局悄然成为我们资金流动的核心。2017年，邮局开始代表银行接受存款，如今这些存款每年超过300亿英镑。其运作方式很简单。顾客交出纸币进行清点，然后插入银行卡并输入密码，就像反向操作的自动取款机。随后，邮局系统与银行系统通信，将现金价值记入与银行卡关联的账户。
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