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a Place appropriate number before each title of the paragraph to make a plan of the text:
............................. Us currency flow into Russia
............................ Arms trafficking
............................ Theft of nuclear materials
............................ Undervalued invoices
............................ Organized crime groups
............................ Fraudulent purchase contracts
b Mark the true sentences as T and false ones as F basing your choice on the text:
1 False invoicing schemes, keeping of double books, and contract fraud are very rare methods used to launder money.........................................................................................................................................................
2 A common scenario is a bank transfer of funds abroad for a commercial transaction...................................................................................................................................................................................
3 When the funds for a commercial transaction are wired no special documents are to be presented as a proof of the transaction..............................................................................................................................................
4 The funds wired abroad can be converted to cash............................................................................................
5 There is no way of embezzling state funds......................................................................................................
с Complete the sentences with the following words from the box:
| to defraud, deliberately, instances, to launder, purportedly, occur, world markets, embezzled |
Another method used................funds involves................in which suppliers never receive payments for products that are................ordered by the state.
2 Schemes................ the state of strategic materials regularly................in which the resources are shipped abroad with................. undervalued invoices and sold at................, the profits of which are................by the perpetrators.
d Sum up what the text says about organized crime in Russia covering:
• various formations
• the number of groups in Russia
• the number of criminal organizations in Moscow and Sankt-Peterburg
• the number of organizations having international contacts
• foreign organized crime groups operating in Russia
• the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia combating organized crime
e Write down the answers on the basis of the text:
1 Is there any connection between shipments of US dollars to Russia and organized crime?..............................................................................................................................................................................
2 Do average Russian citizens buy massive amounts of dollars?.......................................................................
3 Why do Russians convert their earnings to dollars?........................................................................................
4 Why do they reconvert dollars to roubles later?..............................................................................................
5 Are dollars a relatively stable currency?.........................................................................................................
f Write down the questions for the following answers.
g Translate the paragraph speaking about arms trafficking into Russian.