White collar criminals use front organizations, laptops, forged documents and scams to steal money and other assets in a systematic and large-scale way.

A character is suspected of being involved in illegal activities because he owns things he shouldn't be able to afford on his modest salary.

This trope applies to all thinly-veiled front businesses, such as casinos, import/export firms, warehouse or moving companies, and so on.

A skilled forensic accountant will be able to detect when someone is cooking the books, Stealing from the Till, running a Ponzi scheme, or the like.

Money laundering and stashing of dubious funds are the province of professional accountants, finance experts, and (of course) lawyers, who know how to give ...

A simple mechanism precisely designed for the impersonal transfer of arbitrarily large amounts of money: a handy little financial instrument called a bearer ...

A loan shark is a stock villain who typically loans money at high interest rates and will stop at nothing to get it back.

The Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt trope as used in popular culture. A crime, usually an international or diplomatic one, has happened.

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The Counterfeit Cash trope as used in popular culture. Instead of robbing or stealing directly, some criminals prefer to make fake bills — that way, …