Quintin Jardine's blog

That’s a perfectly reasonable question. What does happen to the money that criminals stash out of sight of the authorities? In the case of Jewish assets lodged in Switzerland by the Nazis, its banks managed to hang on to them, tenaciously, for sixty years after the fall of Hitler. If nobody comes looking, I guess that cash might stay were it is forever, or until an enlightened government decides to confiscate assets that have lain dormant for a certain period.