> Then finally, and famously, in August 1994 they took £1m to a remote Scottish island, where, in the middle of the night, they burned the lot. "remote", right

> Then finally, and famously, in August 1994 they took £1m to a remote Scottish island, where, in the middle of the night, they burned the lot. "remote", right. i.e. not closely inspected. I don't buy it. If I was tasked with convincingly burning £1 Million cash, with a budget, by definition, of over £1 Million; I think it could bring it in for £100K, by spending some money on fakes that look ok from a distance, when on fire in low-res video at night, with a layer of real cash over it. Either that, or supervised disposal of counterfeits. All the financial incentives are in the direction of faking it.