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couriers, even less open to suspicion, Italians or even Europeans, with no policerecords, provided with false documents and in some cases even NATO passports.Some of the characteristics of the drug trade, <strong>here</strong> rapidly described, remindone of the trades in women for sexual exploitation: flexibility of the routes and ofthe organisations, the use of labour coming from sub-Saharan Africa, the wideavailability of false documents.In different investigations 71 however t<strong>here</strong> have been found points of contactbetween the two trades: the madam had acquired a quantity, even modest, of drugswhich she then sold; her companion or husband at the time was dedicated to thedrug trade, or while undertaking some functions inside the traffic in women t<strong>here</strong>were subjects with criminal records for trade in drugs.T<strong>here</strong> are cases in which the points of contact are more: in one criminalproceeding t<strong>here</strong> was, for example, a woman with a South American passport who,apart from having become a madam, traded in large quantities of cocaine fromSouth America with her companion, who had already been condemned for crimesrelated to the drug trade.As we do not have at our disposal the criminal proceedings that have witnessedthe consolidated links between the two trades, the hypothesis of the existence of aconnection is supported by the points of contact found and by the analogiesbetween the organisations involved, which suggest as improbable the possibility ofbeing faced with two organisations dedicated to different trades without anyrelationship between them.In addition the experience in relation to the re-investment of the illegal 72earnings indicate that normally the criminal organisations seek to diversify the typeof illegal activities in which to re-employ the accumulated money. One part goes tofoment the same illegal activity, another part is used in other illegal activitieswhich may possibly provide an immediate economic return (as is the case of tradein drugs).To better summarise and visualise the different hypotheses for re-investmentand re-cycling the earnings of the exploitation of prostitution, the following designis very useful, obtained through the many times mentioned Operation Edo.Investment in Italy in legal activityBeside the trade in drugs, it is thought that part of the money is invested in legalactivities, such as commercial, phone centres, money transfer agencies.According to some privileged witnesses it is probable that the money earnedwith illegal trade (the trade in drugs, and the traffic in women for sexual71Referring mainly to criminal proceedings in Triveneto and the area around Milan.72Obviously this does not exclude the use in legal activities which was dealt with in the paragraph“Sending money to Nigeria and its legal use at home” and which will be dealt with in the successiveparagraph “Investment in Italy in legal activity”.