Read the text again to answer the following questions

1. What countries haves fallen victims to situation described in the text?

2. Why do traffickers need money?

3. Which steps are included into laundering process?

4. What do the terms “placement”, “layering” and “integration” mean?

5. What is principal motive to make for the drug traffickers?

6. How can narcodollar influence local consumers?

7. Why do some prisoners return to drug dealing after being released?

8. In what way can methods of money laundering be ranged?

3. Translate the following words and word combinations from English into Russian:

sources of supply, illegal activities, drug dealing, property, to pay bribes, means of transportation, legal expenses, illegal fortune, criminal enterprises, huge profits, to support oneself, basic step, to occur, overlap, to appear, victim, situation, to range, integration, to proceed.

4. Find the English equivalents for the following words and phrases:

недвижимость, незаконное состояние, источник предложения, платить взятки, незаконная деятельность, юридические расходы, транспортные средства, наркобизнеc, уголовное предприятие, высокая прибыль, активы, доставить, стимулировать, получать, ущерб, коварный, существенно, использовать, завлечь, ложно.

5. Decide which sentences are true and which are false? Make the false sentences true:

1. Assets are at the heart of all businesses.

2. Imprisoned can’t invest their illegal fortune while in jail, and the money, with interest, will be waiting for them when they get out.

3. With the heads of organization in jail, trusted associates continue the dangerous and deadly business of drug trafficking utilizing the wealth and property left behind.

4. Where drug traffic prospers, other illegal activities (i.e. prostitution, extortion, theft, ect.) do not flourish.

5. The vast volumes of untaxed dollars generated by drug traffic help to falsely inflate the prices of certain commodities in local area.

6. There is only one method of laundering the money.

7. Placement – separating illicit proceeds from their source by creating complex layers of financial transactions designed to disguise the audit trail and provide anonymity.

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