Ex. 12. Say what you know about forms of organized crime:

FORMS OF ORGANIZED CRIME

	money	motor vehicle
	laundering	theft
counterfeit		gambling	drug
coin		business	trafficking
	extortion/	trade in
	racket	human
trademark		trafficking beings	firearms
pirating	kidnapping
corruption
		in women	prostitution
counterfeiting		loansharking
of credit cards
smuggling
Ex .13. Translate the text:

ORGANIZED CRIME & DRUG TRADE

The international Mafia and its associated secret societies, such as the Chinese Triads and the Colombian drug cartels, exercise the malign and pervasive influence on the political, social and economic life not only in the countries in which they are based - Italy, USA, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Colombia - but also in other areas, especially in Western Europe and the Caribbean.

One of the greatest generators of terrorism and criminal violence in the world is the cocaine trade from the coca fields in Colombia to the drug addicts in Europe and the USA. The Colombian drug cartels have

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distribution centres in London, Amsterdam and other cities. Narcotics are very big business, with a turnover of $ 500 billion per year of which $ 300 million is profits. Potential assets are in trillion dollar range.

World-wide, the distribution and marketing of drugs is run by organizations precisely modelled on commercial multinational organizations. As an indication of the enormous profits made down the line, the raw material (coca) needed to make one kilogram of pure cocaine costs about £14 in Colombia. By the time it has been smuggled into Europe, the wholesaler pays £35,000 for it – a gain of 250 to 1. Its street value, split into doses, is about £70,000 – a further gain of nearly 2 to 1 or a total gain of 500 times the production cost. With so much money to spend, these multinationals and their dealers have no difficulty in hiring willing smugglers, using speedboats or light aircraft, or simply concealing cocaine in the heels of their shoes, or in capsules which they swallow in Collombia or in a Caribbean Іsland and excrete intact after arrival in the USA. The barons can also pay whatever bribes may be needed by corrupt officials to turn a blind eye. And the distributors or the addicts themselves can convert cocaine into the higher-priced and more addictive “crack” simply by heating it with an easily obtainable chemical in microwave oven.

		Vocabulary notes:
malign adj		[mə`lain]	шкідливий
violence n		[`vaiələns]	1.сила; 2.насильство
drug addict	n	[`ædikt]	наркоман
wholesale	adj	[`houlseil]	1.у великих розмірах;
			2.оптовий
value n		[`vælju:]	вартість, ціна
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