For instance, when police in the late 1950s cracked a French heroin ring with an important base in Montreal, they quite easily followed the money trail. They found that over an eight-month period in 1958-59, payments totalling $140,000 had ended up in the Swiss bank account of a major heroin trafficker. Some of those funds had come from an account at a bank in Montreal belonging to a Corsican underworld figure called Gilbert Coscia. As an indication of his lack of sophistication, he had opened the account in his own name. Well into the 1970s, a lack of sophistication continued to characterize some laundering operations used to cleanse criminal profits that were both earned and laundered domestically