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Reading check exercises

1. Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words. Pay attention to the stress.

Illicit proceeds, tangible, succession, estate, bulk cash, straw men, accountancy, to eliminate, to undertake, to earn interest, bureaux de change, gambling, stockbroker, white collar, threshold, smurfing, wire transfer, to disclose/discosure, front companies, entities, commerce, physically, entering, precious metal, a wide variety, exporters, insurers, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, premium insurance.

2. Answer the following questions.

1. What is the aim of shell companies’ activities ?

2. Who are straw men ?

3. How long do front companies exist ?

4. Why are money launderers more oriented towards the use of non-banking financial institutions now ?

5. What a new category of professional money laundering specialists is emerging nowadays?

6. What are principles of their activity ?

3. Explain what is meant by:

to change the illicit proceeds from one form to another; acquiring tangible assets; entities that generally exist only on paper; which are still not completely or properly regulated; to come under the same obligations; to earn interest; second line banks; premium insurance, bond sector, to face a «law enforcement risk», smurfing.

4. Retell the text.

Vocabulary and grammar work

1. Write down the families of the following words.

To gamble; to exist; to smuggle; to trust; to challenge; to earn; to exist.

2. Explain the meaning of the following words in English and give the Ukrainian equivalents.

Straw man; bulk; proceeds , real estate, trafficker, stock exchange,

offshore zones, interest, tangible assets, second line banks, smurfing, premium insurance, bond sector, stockbroker, white collar, threshold.

3. Put the correct prepositions and make sentences of your own.

1. They often face a risk _______ investigations _____ their real existence;

2. to launder proceeds________ banking financial institutions;

3. to be exposed _______ difficulties;

4. because _________ a more or less explicit complicity;

5. individually or __________ concert;

6. to exceed the threshold required ________ the law;

7. to transfer funds _________ one's own account;

8. the identities ________ the owners __________the deposits;

9. these regulations do not apply _________such offices;

10.a special mention has to be done ________ insurance companies;

4. Complete the table.

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Performer

to launder

operator

existence

favored

to administer

financial

investigator

transaction

to operate

accountable

obligation