Vocabulary test
Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:
- fraud
- blackmail
- price fixing
- extortion
- insider trading
- fake
- bribe
- money laundering
- counterfeit
- embezzlement
- In many countries, the word doesn't have the same sense that it does in America or the UK, where paying extra to individuals for business deals is considered unethical.
- Several South American cocaine cartel bosses were charged in a scheme that involved purchasing hotels and motels across America through intermediaries and then selling them to other foreign investors for half the actual market value.
- Notorious mafia boss Joey "Boom Boom" Bombolino was arrested on charges of yesterday after allegedly threatening to blow up several local restaurants if he was not paid a total of over ten million dollars.
- The government was forced to regulate the airline industry after it was found that several major carriers were conspiring to overcharge customers in a huge scandal.
- The dollars seized by police yesterday were so good that even government experts had trouble telling them apart from real treasury notes.
- Examples of include selling property that doesn't belong to you, using false names or documents to perform business transactions, and intentionally providing incorrect accounting information to the government or business contacts.
- They are trying to me! If I don't pay them 10,000 dollars immediately, they say they will tell my wife everything about my affair with my secretary!
- Classic examples of include the character Gordon Gecko in the film "Wall Street”, and Michael Milkin, who both made millions by misusing their specialist knowledge and contacts within the financial community.
- We called in the curators of several major museums, who all agreed that, unfortunately, what we thought was a lost work by Van Gogh was in fact just a .
- The crime of covers everything from the common, minor misuse of company cars, phones and expense accounts, all the way up to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from the accounts of top firms.