紧张严肃活泼2017年英语六级阅读寒假练习题及答案

2021年1月16日发(作者：毕业登记表)
2017年英语六级阅读寒假练习题及答案
Many bankers may be worried about whether some fancy product dreamed
up might yetlead to a visit from the police. Daniel Dantas, a financier,
who has profited by operating at themiddle place where business and
government meet in Brazil, has been opening the door to findthe police
outside for much of the
past decade. On December 2nd he was convicted of a less sophisticated
crime: trying tobribe police officers. Mr. Dantas, who has acquired great
notoriety in Brazil, was fined $$ 5million and sentenced to ten years in
prison. He has appealed against his conviction.
The charge stems from a police investigation into money-laundering
(洗钱)known asOperation Satiagraha. It grew out of a previous
investigation into Mr. Dantas' use of Kroll, asecurity consultancy, to
watch over his business partners. During this investigation the
policeseized a computer from Opportunity, Mr. Dantas's investment bank,
which contained datafrom the mid-1990s to 2004 and apparently showed
suspicious movements of money.
The judge found that Mr. Dantas tried to pay bribes, via two
go-betweens, to keep hisname out of the Satiagraha investigation. A man
fitted with a bugging device was offered $$1million in cash, with another
$$ 4 million to follow, the police say. They claim that Mr. Dantas'strick
involved money travelling to the Cayman Islands, then via the British
Virgin Islands to anaccount in Ireland, on to Delaware, and then
re-entering Brazil as foreign investment.
For Mr. Dantas his crime is a steep fall from grace. A man who sleeps
little and socializesless, he is a vegetarian and self- made billionaire,
a gifted financier who has serially fallen outwith his business partners.
He once controlled a large telecoms firm, acting for investors whoincluded