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From the Ted Talk by Bektour Iskender: The crime-fighting power of cross-border investigative journalism

Unscramble the Blue Letters


In 2019, we joined our efforts with OCCRP and also with riado Liberty, a media organization based in Czech ribuelpc, and Bellingcat, an igttesainvvie Center from the UK. And together we published a series of investigations about an underground cargo empire. A secretive family clan that transported goods from China to Central Asia and didn’t pay all the taxes and tariffs, if you know what I mean. In order to do that, they bribed the Kyrgyzstan cmostus Service, and a siifcianngt chunk of this bribe went to this person: Raimbek Matraimov, the Deputy Head of Kyrgyzstan’s Customs. Our ioisgnaietnvts revealed that even high-ranking officials in Kyrgyzstan are involved in crtiooprun, pniioosng their whole institutions with the worst possible practices.

Open Cloze


In 2019, we joined our efforts with OCCRP and also with _____ Liberty, a media organization based in Czech ________, and Bellingcat, an _____________ Center from the UK. And together we published a series of investigations about an underground cargo empire. A secretive family clan that transported goods from China to Central Asia and didn’t pay all the taxes and tariffs, if you know what I mean. In order to do that, they bribed the Kyrgyzstan _______ Service, and a ___________ chunk of this bribe went to this person: Raimbek Matraimov, the Deputy Head of Kyrgyzstan’s Customs. Our ______________ revealed that even high-ranking officials in Kyrgyzstan are involved in __________, _________ their whole institutions with the worst possible practices.

Solution


  1. republic
  2. significant
  3. customs
  4. investigative
  5. investigations
  6. corruption
  7. poisoning
  8. radio

Original Text


In 2019, we joined our efforts with OCCRP and also with Radio Liberty, a media organization based in Czech Republic, and Bellingcat, an Investigative Center from the UK. And together we published a series of investigations about an underground cargo empire. A secretive family clan that transported goods from China to Central Asia and didn’t pay all the taxes and tariffs, if you know what I mean. In order to do that, they bribed the Kyrgyzstan Customs Service, and a significant chunk of this bribe went to this person: Raimbek Matraimov, the Deputy Head of Kyrgyzstan’s Customs. Our investigations revealed that even high-ranking officials in Kyrgyzstan are involved in corruption, poisoning their whole institutions with the worst possible practices.

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Important Words


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  40. republic
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  47. taxes
  48. transported
  49. uk
  50. underground
  51. worst