(v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.
(v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(2) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
(3) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(4) His former deputy prime minister, Damir Polančec, was charged in September in the biggest case concerning alleged embezzlement and money laundering to the tune of €60m (£50m) at the country's largest food company.
(5) If if was corrupt it should never have been here.” Last month the EU froze assets of former president Yanukovych, and 21 other people held responsible for embezzling state funds.
(6) The former managing director of a state car plant in Georgia is not bitter, either, about the accusations of embezzlement and misuse of public funds.
(7) Navalny, who led mass protests against Vladimir Putin three years ago, was handed a suspended sentence on 30 December after being found guilty of embezzling money in a trial that led to his brother being jailed on similar charges.
(8) Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement on Thursday in Kirov, but prosecutors unexpectedly asked for his release the next morning.
(9) GFHC, a subsidiary of the Bahrain-based investment bank Gulf Finance House, accuse the former Leeds managing director of fraud and embezzlement, with detailed documents alleging he fabricated at least 55 invoices to secure payments to five different bank accounts, two in Dubai and three in the UK.
(10) Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are accused of embezzling the entire crude oil production of Yukos over a six-year period.
(11) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
(12) But on Wednesday morning the eyes of the Russian elite – from ministers to Kremlin critics – will be on an unassuming courthouse in the centre of this city, where Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's loudest foe, will go on trial charged with embezzlement.
(13) The charges relate to alleged embezzlement by her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
(14) At a press conference on Thursday, the Ivorian state prosecutor Simplice Kouadia Koffi said the couple were accused of "aggravated theft, attacks on the national economy, embezzlement of public funds and pillage".
(15) I will continue to represent the interests of people who want Russia to be a normal, honest, not corrupt country.” In a trial widely seen as a means of silencing him, Navalny was convicted of embezzlement from a state timber company in Kirov in 2013, but he was allowed to run for mayor of Moscow while he appealed against the ruling.
(16) A judge in the provincial city of Kirov, 500 miles north-east of Moscow, found Navalny guilty of embezzling 16m roubles (£300,000) from a timber firm while advising the region's liberal governor in 2009.
(17) 7.27pm BST EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to add four names to the list of people whose assets in the European Union have been blocked for allegedly embezzling Ukrainian state property under fugitive pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reports: The new names, which brought the total to 22, including Yanukovych himself, are to be made public Tuesday.
(18) Khodorkovsky, 47, an oil tycoon who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to eight years in jail for fraud two years later, will appear in court in Moscow today to hear the verdict in his second trial on embezzlement charges.
(19) According to state media, Ji Jianye is being investigated for "severe violations of discipline and law" – a euphemism for embezzlement, bribery and other official abuses.
(20) He has been convicted on politically motivated embezzlement charges that have been described as "bizarre" and is not due for release until 2023.
Swindle
Definition:
(v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
(n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(2) One of my strongest memories of Malcolm is watching him reduce Richard Branson to tears by refusing to allow him to invest in my film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle .
(3) He sent me information about the film The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(4) But for Americans who are learning about the agreement, it is clear that the real "us against them" is not America against the more independent nations of the developing world, but TPP countries' citizens against a corporate swindle being negotiated behind their backs.
(5) As his 28-page petition seeking the Dallas injunction makes clear, even before the fevered allegations of "epic swindle" and conspiracies by the three directors and RBS, Hicks is obsessed with the $822m (£513m) valuation put on Liverpool by Forbes magazine and his belief that the club should fetch a fortune approaching that.
(6) They do the crossing of the Sahara desert, they are swindled, they are often being ransomed, it’s an incredibly violent trek to get to Libya and then cross into Europe.
(7) The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively.
(8) Either a substitution without proxy or a swindle of one spouse by the other occurs in vital areas of their relation.
(9) Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change.
(10) But those people would have no problem swearing an oath disingenuously, since they intended from the outset to swindle or bring down the institution anyway.
(11) The Texas District State Court petition accuses the chairman, Martin Broughton, appointed by the creditors Royal Bank of Scotland in April to oversee the sale of the club, and his fellow directors of acting as "pawns" of RBS to perpetrate an "epic swindle" in selling the club to NESV for less than half its supposed market value and ignoring several higher offers.
(12) They forever print tabloid tales of benefit cheats on the swindle, which is bad – I used to do it – but the reality that we lose £1bn a year on all benefit fraud combined, and £25bn on tax avoidance and evasion by big companies and the super rich is seldom reported.
(13) Cameron's role, in Putin's eyes, as modern-day useful idiot may be further enhanced by the former's cautiously oblique references to bilateral concerns including corruption, legal swindles encountered by British businesses and human rights issues.
(14) In other cases, the procedure may become a nightware coupled to a swindle, and even endanger the life of the hopeful mother-to-be.
(15) Magnitsky exposed the biggest tax swindle in Russian history, and was put to death by Russian officials for his pains.
(16) In other words, the emissions scandal is not confined to Volkswagen, to a single algorithm, or to the US: it looks, in all its clever variants, like a compound global swindle.
(17) Signatories included Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, editor of Energy and Environment, Jones's least favourite journal, and Martin Durkin, the British TV producer notorious for his programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(18) A spokesman for Guinness World Records told German paper Taz: "It seems that at the time Guinness was duped by this swindle just like the rest of the media."
(19) The Office for National Statistics report published yesterday on migration has provoked some predictable hysteria: the Sun’s headline is “Great Migrant Swindle”, while Allison Pearson in the Telegraph claims that “the gap between ONS migrant figures and the truth is as wide as the Grand Canyon”.
(20) For some reason, I can also vividly recall seeing an import single featuring Malcolm McLaren singing You Need Hands: presumably some lunatic at a continental record label had looked at the soundtrack of the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and concluded that the track with most commercial potential was the one that featured their manager tunelessly bellowing his way through the old Max Bygraves number.