Open a foreign bank account with no papertrail leading back to you.

The only way to eliminate a paper trail is to go in to your new bank personally or through a lawyer and open your account with untraceable cash or a commodity like gold. As many banks around the world are required by their governments to restrict or report the amount of cash they accept from new accounts, it may be necessary to either open a number of small accounts and later consolidate them, or to take really hugh sacks of cash into banks in those remaining few jurisdictions that don't care about conforming to Big Brother's wishes.

In Switzerland currently, most banks will accept a maximum of 100,000 Swiss Francs from a new customer. This is around £45,000. Accordingly, to open a Swiss account with £1,000,000 in it, it would be necessary to make 25 trips, or to open around 25 different accounts in cash at various branches or other Swiss banks and later combine them into one big account.

Once you have a personal relationship with a banker, however, he can make special arrangements with you (regarding confidential movements of cash) everywhere in the world - of course not in those countries where Big Brother and the Bureau Rats are in total control. An established customer in Switzerland can deal in unlimited amounts of cash if the banker feels his client's source of funds is legal.

Second best for breaking the paper trail is perhaps bearer securities. These are simply shares of company or bonds that are issued to bearer. The company has no record of who the owner is. They are outlawed in the USA, but available everywhere else. One deposits bearer securities with the new bank and tells the new bank either to hold them, or to sell them and deal with the proceeds as directed. With bearer securities there is a potential trail (very difficult to follow) if you bought the bearer securities in your own name through a stockbroker or bank. Thus it is best to explain to the stockbroker when you buy, that your objective is confidentiality. A good stockbroker will arrange for an anonymous purchase.

A third possibility is to purchase something (an object or commodity) that you know can be shipped abroad and sold. Gold, rare coins, stamps, jewelry, antiques, art works - all these are possibilities. But if you are in a hurry, nothing works as well as cash. But even cash takes up a lot of space in a suitcase if you use sterling (largest note is £50), or dollars (largest note is 100 dollars).

Which countries have the largest denomination notes?: most people believe it is Switzerland. Their 1,000 franc note is worth around 750 US dollars. Canada also has a 1,000 dollar note worth about 800 US dollars. But Singapore , with a strong, well accepted currency has 10,000 dollar notes in common circulation. They are worth closer to 7,000 US dollars. Using Singapore banknotes, 14 million is US dollars value can be crammed into an ordinary attache case, and 1 million US dollars can be stuffed into a pocket or belly money-belt.

Transit accounts: Aside from cash, the simplest way to break the paper trail from a practical point of view is to use transit accounts. Briefly, a transit account is simply an account in a different name (perhapes a corporation), and in a country with bank secrecy. Funds are routed through two or three such accounts. Investigators don't like to go through the legal procedures in foreign countries taking an averge of six months per account.