You find a credit card and go on a $500,000.00 spending spree buying items, rooting, drinking, travelling, etc. (Sounds like the life doesn't it) but seriously.
How many transactions to use $500,000 ?
Even if each transaction was to the value of $1,000 there would be 500 (five hundred) different uses, 500 hundred different avenues of enquiries and 500 places to start your investigation. That is a lot of witnesses, a lot of evidence and a lot of answer Craig Thomson will have to give.
He would have purchased something, a TV, DAB radio, DVD player, iphone, Ipad, coffee machine, perfume, clothing, wine, golf clubs, memberships to gyms, there would be something that would still be in his house today that he purchased with that card.