Bulliac wrote:
This has, 'allegedly', gone on since the cap was introduced, with antipodean players usually being implicated; aka the Singapore parachute - whereby players would supposedly find a wedge of moolahs waiting in an account at their stop over point on the way home. Not that it's ever been proved, but it does have the beauty of sounding very plausible and difficult to pin down. To be honest, I'm far from sure how this sort of thing would fit in with current money laundering rules, though being neither launderer nor accountant, I'm not the best to proffer an opinion.
The Singapore thing was about tax avoidance, not salary cap, where the club would pay for the player's image rights to a company owned by the player but registered in their home country. They got their cash in a country with a more favourable tax system. It was HMRC who clamped down, not the RFL. It counted on the cap.
Marwan tweeted that it's up to the club how much they give the player of the season award. So I guess it goes like this: 'Player X: we'll give you £100K for playing, £50K for consultancy for my company, and you've also won the £20K player of the year for the next three years".
