{"id":92891,"date":"2026-09-01T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-a-company-selling-toy-soldiers-has-fallen-foul-of-money-laundering-rules-ft-shorts\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:44:17","slug":"why-a-company-selling-toy-soldiers-has-fallen-foul-of-money-laundering-rules-ft-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-a-company-selling-toy-soldiers-has-fallen-foul-of-money-laundering-rules-ft-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a company selling toy soldiers has fallen foul of money laundering rules | FT #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why has a company that sells toy soldiers fallen foul of money laundering rules? \u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nIf you sell artwork for more <!--more--> than \u00a310,000 you need to register with the tax authority and do extra checks on your clients. This is all to prevent illegal cash being washed through the system with art, which can be both expensive and easy to move, explains the FT\u2019s Josh Spero. \u2060<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why has a company that sells toy soldiers fallen foul of money laundering rules? \u2060 \u2060 If you sell artwork for more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}