Considering the story earlier in the year about NCSoft and Nexon buying Valve, I'm starting to think the business press in Korea is more rumor based than the British tabloid press.
But for it to be money laundering, the money, well part of it, needs to be returned to the party whose money is dirty.
Unless you are implying that NCSoft itself has a source of dirty money and is using it's own item stores to transfer it to itself via third party purchased point cards. That doesn't make any sense since they get the money from point cards when they are purchased. No need to open, apply and then close a F2P account.
But if it's a case that NCSoft is laundering other people's dirty money, then you haven't presented a way for NCSoft to funnel the now "clean" funds back to the source.
The only scenario that makes sense to me is for lets say bad people running a RMT group buying points with dirty money, using someone's item shop to turn that into virtual items than then can be sold to someone for legitimate cash. However item shops tend to bind such items to an account so the item can't be transferred. You would need an item like PLEX in Eve or Gems in GW2 that can be converted to in game cash and then do a RMT of game currency for real money and then they could kill the account once the transfer is done. I have no idea about the item shops or proxy currency in their other games. But that doesn't need NCSoft's knowledge or compliance to conduct such activities.
Example how it could work. Right now the more trusted RMT groups are selling 50 gold in GW2 for $18-24 and the less trusted from $12-24 (looked up via Google). Right now you can buy 2000 Gems for $25 in Walmart and other stores. The in game exchange rate is roughly 1.25 - 1.5 gold per 100 gems so that's roughly costing $41-50 via the buy gem card method to create 50 gold. Don't know if a 50-65% loss for getting your funds clean is a reasonable laundering fee to pay. Seems a tad high.
And you are relaying that NCSoft is one someone's radar for knowingly doing this, considering the risk of putting themselves out of business forever if this is proven, why? Because they need to prop up sales numbers for the quarter?
This is exactly what we don't want to be portrayed as, disgruntled players who are so upset about what NCSoft did that we start libeling them, even if we are only repeating a rumor from an unnamed source, as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy". Because they closed us down they must actually be a money laundering front, for who? Chinese Triads? Japanese Yakuza? Gnomes of Zurich? SMOF? At some point this gets very silly and the degrees of separation from the tin foil hat crowd is getting uncomfortably close. Now if you want the save COH movement to be lumped in with the anti-fluoride/anti-vaccination/ RDIF chips are the number of the beast type crowds then congratulations you're on the right track. However if you want us to be thought of as a legitimate group looking to find a white knight to acquire the IP and bring the game back then we can't have arguably our most famous player suggesting illegal activity from the company we want to be receptive in selling off the IP.
I'm begging you here VV, this demonization of NCSoft is getting out of control. It's one thing to say they are unethical and hypocritical over the closure of our game while it was still making money while claiming they are all about their gaming community and another to imply, on more than one occasion that the company in engaged in questionable activities that are considered illegal in most circles.
