5 THE ILLEGALSWhen Daisy had received the list of legitimate businesses, she had recognised the names of most of them, despite having spent most of her late teens in the UK in school and university. However, one name jumped out at her - a bar in the nearby hills with a salacious reputation amongst the locals. It was said to be a bordello, a brothel, and it was marked on the list as that - one of five such ‘bars’ or ‘hotels’. There were seven ‘madams’, each running girls; twenty smugglers each running mules carrying contraband (mostly cigarettes) to the UK; three illegal gambling dens, an ex-customs agent who helped men obtain dodgy family permits for spouses who would otherwise not have qualified for a UK visa and a money laundering service, which charged a whopping forty percent.
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