Working on the text. Task 2.Find in the text the English equivalents of the following:

Task 2. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following:

поток контрабанды; незаконный ввоз/вывоз; уплата пошлин и налогов; хранение и продажа; таможенные правонарушения; место сокрытия; интеллектуальная собственность; труднодоступные места; методы обнаружения контрабанды; высокотехнологичное оборудование; собаки, обученные находить наркотики; штраф; федеральная собственность; смертная казнь

Task 3. Insert prepositions, if necessary.

1) the unlawful bringing _____ and taking _____

2) is forbidden _____ law

3) to evade _____ paying duties

4) to find guilty _____ smuggling

5) to punish _____ a fine

6) to take _____ court

7) to turn _____ federal property

8) to entail _____ death penalty

9) to fight _____ smuggling

Task 4. Find the words or phrases in the text that mean the following:

Task 5. a) Match left and right to make word combinations.

tax equipment

customs laundering

death fraud

double evasion

money property

intellectual bottom

inside penalty

commercial pocket

high-tech violations

b) Use the word combinations to complete the sentences.

1) He has been found guilty of …..

2) Drug dealers may face …

3) A lot of money was spent on the … of the new check- point.

4) We investigate the cases of …

Task 6. Read the texts and complete the chart below.

a) Heroin Confiscated

Russian border guards and customs officers at Sheremetyevo airport seized more than 2kg of heroin from a Pakistany tourist. The man’s documents aroused the suspicions of passport control officers. Customs officers searched his baggage and found the heroin between double sides of his suitcase. The amount is worth $200,000 on the black market.

b) Hippy Chick

A German woman was arrested at Waterloo International Terminal with a kilo of cocaine worth £130,000 strapped to her hips. She was stopped by officers on her arrival and later she was jailed for two and a half years.

c) Icon Smuggler Arrested

A Latvian man was arrested after Russian customs officers discovered 65 ancient icons hidden in his car as he tried to cross the border. Experts are trying to determine the age and value of the icons.

d) Spaniard’s Full Tank

A Spanish motorist has been jailed for eight months after customs officers found 7 kg of 100% pure cocaine hidden in a fuel tank of his car. His smuggling bid was stopped by drug detector dog Josh who gave a positive identification after which officers searched the car.

e) Ivory Seized From Korean

Customs officials at Moscow international airport seized 537 kg of ivory (elephant tusks) found in the luggage which belonged to the wife of North Korean diplomat. Most countries forbid the export or import of ivory.

f) Customs Catch

Moscow customs officials have confiscated more than $70,000 from a US citizen after she tried to smuggle the currency into Ukraine. The money was carried in the inside pockets of her coat. The woman has been detained and a criminal case has been filed.

g) Cat Dodgers’ Fine …£ 1,500

Tree French students, who smuggled two cats into Britain in their car, were each fined £500 under the anti-rabies laws. But the tourists had only £102 on them when they were arrested. Now they face thirty days in jail unless the French Consul agrees to pay the balance of the fine.

h) Russian Gets 25 Years in Jail for Smuggling

A court in United Arab Emirates has sentenced a 40-year-old Russian national to life imprisonment, or 25 years behind bars for smuggling and illegally selling medicine. He had been found guilty of smuggling medicine into the country and

organizing its subsequent sale. The drugs included Diazepam and Phenobarbital.

i) Russian Customs Seize Monkeys on Banana Boat

Russian Customs have seized four rare monkeys from an Ecuadorian sailor at St.Petersburg port. The suspect hid the animals in a box on a vessel that shipped bananas to Russia. He hoped to sell them on for a profit. The animals experienced health problems after their 25-day trip, and one of them later died

Task 7. Say what you can remember about:

1) one of the main duties of the customs

2) the ways smuggled goods can enter the country

3) the actions that are regarded as smuggling

4) customs violations connected with smuggling

5) the most common objects of smuggling

6) the most common places of concealment

7) methods of detecting cases of contraband

8) high-tech equipment that customs officers use

9) the way people are punished for smuggling

Task 8. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:

1. Контрабанда может доставляться в страну пассажирами, а также поступать с грузом и транспортными средствами.

2. Хранение и продажа контрабанды должны быть запрещены законом.

3. Ты можешь не указывать в декларации личные вещи.

4. Существуют различные таможенные правонарушения, связанные с контрабандой: отмывание денег, коррупция, нарушение прав интеллектуальной собственности и др.

5. При проведении таможенного досмотра используются различные виды оборудования: сканеры, металлоискатели, видеокамеры на гибких штативах, камеры с дистанционным управлением, наборы зеркал и др.

6. В транспортных средствах есть зоны, труднодоступные для визуального осмотра.

7. Контрабандисты могут использовать различные места сокрытия.

8. Незаконный ввоз и вывоз в страну запрещенных, ограниченных к вывозу и ввозу или облагаемых пошлиной предметов, называется контрабандой.

9. Одной из основных задач таможенников должно быть предотвращение провоза контрабанды.

10. Лицо, признанное виновным в провозе контрабанды, может быть подвергнуто штрафу или привлечено к уголовной ответственности.

11. Сотрудники нашего управления занимаются расследованием фактов нарушения таможенного и налогового законодательства, а также выявлением лиц, занимающихся незаконным перемещением через границу наркотиков, оружия, культурных ценностей и других товаров.

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Task 9. a) Read and translate the text.

CONTROLLED DELIVERY

A controlled delivery is the delivery of a consignment of goods under the continuous surveillance of customs or police officers in an attempt to arrest as many members of the smuggling organization as possible and in particular the principal.

Drug couriers and drugs seized can easily be replaced but the drug principals can’t. It is the arrest of these principals and the smashing of drug trafficking organization that enforcement agencies should mainly be concerned with and this is what controlled deliveries are aimed at.

When a drug shipment is discovered, all or most of the drugs is substituted with a harmless substance and “clean” controlled delivery is carried out. With some concealment and in certain circumstances substitution may not be feasible, and a “live” controlled delivery may be undertaken.

The advantages of substitution are obvious; it minimizes the possible risk of losing the drugs; the investigating officers are afforded a greater degree of flexibility, because they are not constantly faced with ensuring that the drugs are secure, which in a “live” situation must take priority.

There are four occasions which might produce a controlled delivery. These are when drugs are detected with:

- couriers;

- freight and unaccompanied baggage;

- postal items;

- export and transit goods.

A situation involving a courier is probably the most difficult to progress as a controlled delivery. It is usually neither practicable nor desirable to allow the courier to proceed, because of the unacceptably high risk of losing both the drugs and the person. The two options are: to co-opt the assistance of the courier or substitute an undercover officer in their place.

In circumstances where a co-operating courier is being used the courier’s reliability must be considered extremely doubtful. When an undercover officer is used, consideration must be given to the fact that the person is often known to other members of the organization. An officer’s safety is paramount and steps must be taken to protect him or her at all times of risk.

b) Make a glossary. Choose seven words to remember.

c) Speak about: a) what a controlled delivery is;

b) why such operations are carried out;

c) the types of controlled delivery operations;

d) the occasions that may produce a controlled delivery;

e) the ways a controlled delivery may progress.