Corrupção - Parte 2

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Vamos começar com o conceito de collocations. Uma collocation é uma combinação de palavras que costumam aparecer juntas, de maneira mais ou menos fixa, como por exemplo close a deal (fechar um contrato), right on time (bem na hora), waste money (jogar dinheiro fora).

Agora uma pequena lista de collocations ‘criminosas’:

bribery and corruption	suborno e corrupção
creative accounting	contabilidade criativa
white collar crime	crime do colarinho branco
identity theft	roubo de identidade
influence peddling	tráfico de influência
insider trading	informações privilegiadas
market rigging	cartel
money laundering	lavagem de dinheiro
ponzi scheme	esquema de pirâmide
slush fund	verba para propina

Exercício 1: Use as collocations acima para completar estas sentenças:

1.   “Brazil's corruption-fueled political crisis ramped up Thursday when prosecutors announced a probe into possible___________by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.” (Al Jazeera with Agence France-Presse)

Lula

2. TelexFree immediately tried to bury the report, but failed. Judge Thais Borges later remarked the report was “conclusive” enough for her to make a ruling with. And on the 16th of September, 2015 that ruling was finally made, with Judge Borges concluding TelexFree is indeed a_____________. (Behind MLM)

3. Brazil recorded 180,919 attempts of_________in the month of July, where personal data were used by criminals to obtain business under misrepresentation or to earn credits with the intention of not making payments. (Telecompaper, 27 August 2014)

4. Over 70 firms have been investigated to date, including RBS, Ford, Mitsubishi and Santander. For some analysts, investigations such as ‘zealot’ and ‘carwash’ point to a renewed appetite to tackle _______________in Brazil. (Financier Worldwide Magazine)

Sérgio Moro

5. Three leading members of the Tvind Teachers Group - the supposed humanitarian organisation, which controls dozens of ‘development charities’ around the world - have been charged with $12 million­­­­__________in Brazil. Prosecutors described the Group as a ‘transnational criminal organisation’. (Byline Beta, Nov. 29, 2015)

6. When former executives such as Mr. Barusco began naming names in exchange for reduced sentences, the probe widened to include political figures, with the allegation that as much as 3 per cent of the value of major construction and supply contracts was diverted to a ____________for political parties. (The Globe and Mail, March 14, 2015)

7. Public galleries were closed in the tumult. An opposition deputy, Mendonça Filho, called the budget procedure “blackmail by decree.”. “_____________has substituted for fiscal responsibility,” said Felipe Salto, an economist at a São Paulo consultancy called Tendências. “Because it altered policies that were working and substituted policies that did not work.” (The Washington Post, Dec. 2014)

Eike Batista

8. Brazilian billionaire on trial for_____________: Mr Eike Batista faces charges of having manipulated market charges in the sales of shares of two of his companies. (BBC, Latin America and Caribbean, 18 November 2014)

9. The Mensalão rulings, handed down by Brazil’s Supreme Court, are a milestone in a country where politicians charged with ____________are generally able to avoid jail and sometimes even continue to hold public office. Indeed, Paulo Sotero of the Woodrow Wilson Center went so far as to call Brazil ‘a paradise of impunity for____________’ in a recent Financial Times article. (RskAdvisory, Dec. 2012)

10. The congressional inquiry has looked into BNDES loans for projects abroad built by the country’s top construction conglomerates. The builders known for bankrolling political campaigns have been cited in the Petrobras probe for creating a_________. (The Tico Times News, Dec. 2015)