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Originally Posted by WaterAndWindSpirit
What kind of benefits would they get from having business relations with a high end automotive car theft ring?
With jewelry/electronics/luxury items fences?
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The fences are fairly simple to use. The megacorp becomes a buyer for goods stolen by the syndicate (and maybe a few others). This serves a couple of purposes:
The first is analysis: learning more about what the syndicate does, what it's interested in, and so on.
The second is forensics: getting trace evidence from the stolen items to help identify the thieves. If the megacorp has someone (maybe a PC) with the Psychometry advantage or the History family of spells, this becomes easy and very effective.
An important point is that the fences must not know that they're selling to the megacorp. When it starts acting against the thieves, the syndicate will connect the actions to the stolen goods, and start asking the fences hard questions. A fence who doesn't protect criminals' identities is likely to get killed by the criminals.
The car theft ring is less useful. It means the megacorp can acquire vehicles through them, but doing that legitimately is easier and safer. Having the car thieves steal the syndicates' vehicles will just get them in difficulties with the syndicate. Changing them to being a car fencing ring might work better.