Grammaire et Traduction Anglaise
Grammaire et Traduction Anglaise
20 Business > Fraud > Actuality. terms
mdp: GramTrad
- Blackmail
- noun
- The crime of demanding money from a person by threatening to tell somebody else a secret about them.
source: Oxford Learner's Dictionary
- Example: 1. The documentary shows that an old employee tried to blackmail the promoter of the festival.
2. It was showed in court how blackmail was indeed used to coerce the victim into admitting to the crime.
3. She allegedly began sending the ‘blackmail’ messages on October 26, starting with a demand that he show her ‘the new car’. (source: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/)
- en: Chantage
- Bribe
- verb
- To try to make someone do something for you by giving them money, presents, or something else that they want.
source: Cambridge dictionary
- Example: 1. They bribed the security guard so that they could get access to the VIP section.
2. Many bribes were put in place to help him win the competition.
3. The Justice Department released fresh evidence suggesting that three FIFA officials accepted bribes from unnamed intermediaries to vote for Qatar. (source: https://www.vox.com/)
- en: pot-de-vin
- Coercion
- noun
- The action of making somebody do something that they do not want to do, using force or threatening to use force
source: Oxford Dictionary
- Example: 1. They claimed police had them admit of fraud under coercion.
2. We must therefore reflect on Russia’s nuclear coercion with considerable scrutiny. (source: https://www.nato.int/)
- en: contrainte, coercion
- Corruption
- noun
- Dishonest or illegal behaviour, especially of people in authority.
source: Oxford Dictionary
- Example: 1. The documentary showed the corruption within the organization.
2. The era of fractured power and corruption is about to end.
3. The EU should see the corruption scandal as an opportunity to make necessary improvements. (source : https://www.eurotopics.net/)
- en: corruption
- Embezzlement
- noun
- The act of stealing money that you are responsible for or that belongs to your employer.
source: Oxford Dictionnary
- Example: 1. Among the charges they did admit to, we could find embezzlement of funds.
2. Nine individuals are facing an indictment for their role in an embezzlement scheme. (source: https://www.bizjournals.com/)
- en: détournement de fonds
- Forfeiture
- noun
- The loss of rights, property, or money, especially because you have not obeyed a rule or law.
source: Cambridge Dictionnary
- Example: 1. The fraudster faced a $26millions forfeiture order.
2. Civil forfeiture suits have a lower threshold than criminal proceedings, tested on a balance of probabilities rather than beyond reasonable doubt. (source: https://www.timescolonist.com/)
- en: perte (par confiscation)
- Fraud
- noun
- A dishonest way of making money.
source: Cambridge Dictionary
- Example: 1. The Fyre Festival was a fraud, one of the biggest known in the music industry.
2. She was the victim of an elaborate fraud.
3. Police text 70,000 victims in UK's biggest anti-fraud operation. (source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk)
- en: Arnaquer ; Frauder
- Impunity
- noun
- The fact of not getting punished for something.
source: Oxford Dictionnary
- Example: 1. Influencers that promoted the festival all over social media stay in impunity to this day.
2. The rioters set fires and looted with impunity.
3. The Mechanism will continue to play an essential role in ending impunity and implementing international justice. (source: https://www.gov.uk/)
- en: impunité
- Joint venture
- noun
- A business or business activity that two or more people or companies work on together
source: cambridge dictionary.
- Example: 1. The festival was a joint venture between con-artist Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule. (source: https://www.cnbc.com)
2. The new business was a joint venture.
3. The lead organizer of the infamous failed 2017 Fyre festival will immediately begin new ventures in the entertainment industry after being released early from federal prison on Wednesday, according to his attorney. (source: https://www.theguardian.com/)
- en: joint-venture ou coentreprise
- Liability
- noun
- The fact that someone is legally responsible for something.
source: Cambridge Dictionnary.
- Example: 1. The promoters excluded themeselves from any liability following the failiure of the project.
2. Liabilities from the initial obligation may prevent you from having the financial or logistical ability to honor the new obligation.
3. An NHS Foundation Trust has accepted liability for the death of a new-born baby after "failures in care". (source: https://www.bbc.com/)
- en: Responsabilité
- Pitchman
- noun
- A man whose job is to give sales pitches; talks to persuade people to buy something
source : Cambridge.
- Example: He took his job as a pitchman very seriously.
- en: bonimenteur
- Shell Company
- noun
- A company that does not itself do or own anything, but is used to hide a person's or another company's activities, sometimes illegal ones.
source: Cambridge Dictionnary
- Example: 1. The shell company was exposed to the court on the third day of trial.
2. The UK has imposed restrictions on the Chinese takeover of a shell company worth £1, saying the move mitigates national security risks. (source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/)
- en: société écran / fictive / fantôme
- Suborn
- verb
- Suborn somebody to pay or persuade somebody to do something illegal, especially to tell lies in court.
source: Oxford Dictionnary
- Example: 1. Some journalists said that witnesses might have been suborned by the promoters.
2. "It feels like going back into a type of slavery and control, where other people get to decide they will suborn me," she said. (source: https://www.bbc.com/)
- en: suborner
- Swindle
- verb
- To cheat somebody in order to get something, especially money, from them.
source: Oxford Dictionary
- Example: He swindled over 2 million dollars by selling 8 000 fake tickets.
They bribed, blackmailed and swindled.
- en: Escroquer
- To launder money
- verb
- To move money that has been obtained illegally into foreign bank accounts or legal businesses so that it is difficult for people to know where the money came from.
source: oxford dictionnary
- Example: 1. Similarities were found behind the organization of musical festivals and the most recent money-laundering schemes.
2. Some police forces reported that businesses were being set up to launder cash.
3. The Senate has blocked a critical bill to curb financial crime and corruption in the United States, a setback for what advocates have called the most significant reform to the country’s anti-money laundering laws in 20 years. (source: https://www.icij.org/)
- en: blanchiment d'argent
- To wind something up
- verb
- To close a business or organization
source: cambridge dictionary.
- Example: Attorneys had to wind up the company.
Both project partners wound up in jail.
- en: liquider
- Venture
- noun
- A new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty.
source: Cambridge Dictionnary
- Example: Fyre Festival promoters back with a new venture and promoting it all over social media.
- en: entreprise hasardeuse, aventure
- Vishing
- verb
- An attempt to trick someone into giving information over the telephone that would allow someone else to take money from them, for example by taking money out of their bank account.
source: Cambridge Dictionnary
- Example: 1. Vishing may have been used by the promoters in order to get more funds for the festival.
2. Warning people about the vile scam known as vishing is one of them.
3. It was a classic case of "Vishing" - or voice phishing - which last year cost consumers and banks £24m, according to Financial Fraud Action UK (FFAUK). (source: https://www.bbc.com/)
- en: Hameçonnage par téléphone
- White collar crime
- noun
- Crime in which an office worker or someone in business illegally takes money from their employer or the people they deal with in their business.
source: Oxford Dictionnary
- Example: 1. Many of the investigators on this case had worked on cases involving bank fraud, mortgage fraud, investment fraud and other white-collar crimes.
2. Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan said that with the NAB amendments to cope with the challenges of white collar crime becomes impossible. (source: https://www.thenews.com.pk/)
- en: crime en col blanc
- Wire-fraud
- noun
- Wire fraud is a federal crime that occurs when electronic communication, such as email or text messaging, is used to further a criminal act.
source: nationwide.com
- Example: 1. McFarland pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud. (source: https://www.npr.com)
2. Multiple conspiracy counts on charges of wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, and money laundering were filed against the former billionaire. (source: https://www.cnbc.com/)
- en: fraude électronique
