embezzlement

1. The stealing of money entrusted to one's care: “The treasurer of the company embezzled a million dollars.”

Example Sentences

He faces a lengthy jail sentence in Moldova for money laundering and embezzlement.

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He’s been told that, in return, the embezzlement case against him would be frozen and potentially dropped when the war ends.

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Mrs Hajiyeva's husband, Jahangir, was the chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 to 2015 and is serving a 16-year jail sentence for fraud and embezzlement.

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The agency believes the golf course and house were obtained as a “direct result of large-scale fraud and embezzlement, false accounting and money laundering”.

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Shor fled Moldova in 2019 and was later sentenced in absentia for money laundering and embezzlement.

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Related Words

• fraud
• larceny
• misappropriation
• misuse
• theft