The Paris City Council on Monday approved a settlement in an embezzlement case involving former President Jacques Chirac, who was accused of diverting millions of dollars in public funds to political allies during his tenure as mayor, from 1977 to 1995.
A Bosnian diplomat who has been held in a Manhattan jail while fighting extradition in an embezzlement investigation received a United States magistrate's permission yesterday to post bail and be released.
MADRID, May 7 (Reuters) - A Spanish court on Tuesday suspended corruption charges brought against King Juan Carlos's daughter, saying there was not sufficient evidence that Princess Cristina had been an accomplice in an embezzlement case involving her husband.
He had, they said, tried to persuade the justice minister, Tseng Yung-fu, to lobby prosecutors not to revive an embezzlement case against a prominent opposition lawmaker.
The prosecutor general, Roberto Gurgel, said Wednesday that he would analyze testimony in which a businessman convicted in an embezzlement and vote-buying scheme tied Brazil's former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to the scandal.
In 1981, he was embarrassed by an embezzlement scheme involving a company he had endorsed.
Not so much lately – he's been preoccupied by takeovers, plus an embezzlement case and an FA "bung" inquiry – he denies wrongdoing in both.
In the end, his resignation was triggered by a public spat between Mr Surkov and Mr Bastrykin's committee, which is leading an embezzlement probe into Skolkovo, a state-financed innovation hub that came under Mr Surkov's purview.
As they broadened the investigation into the Defense Ministry, federal investigators have reopened an embezzlement investigation singling out a Moscow tax official close to Mr. Serdyukov, Vedomosti reported Wednesday, citing unnamed law enforcement officials.
However, partway through construction, it was forced to relinquish control to the city of Brussels after an embezzlement scandal in which a company director allegedly attempted to steal 2.5 million francs from the company.
