Sentence examples for embezzled by from inspiring English sources

Moreover, when we discuss corruption in Nigeria, we usually focus on the headline figures, the billions embezzled by politicians.

Russian news reports said sums allegedly embezzled by Mr. Nikolayev and other top city officials topped $3 million.

Philippine officials are still attempting to recover over 150 paintings, including works by Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Michelangelo, embezzled by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his notorious wife.

Soldiers in Anbar province, where much of the fighting has been concentrated, complain that money for their food and fuel is embezzled by officers and many have deserted.

Vast sums of money earmarked for the campaign against the rebels, however, were embezzled by the imperial favourite Heshen and his friends.

He also received a suspended prison term for receiving money from funds embezzled by a businessman who paid him to attend dinners in Cannes, France, and the Antilles islands.

Those who violated the state's monopoly on the economy — whether by embezzling, by running a small private business, or by buying and selling American bluejeans — were perceived as common criminals undeserving of international attention.

Ms. Underwood said she was left speechless by the amount of what appears to have been embezzled, and by the fact that it had evaded multiple layers of state and local oversight for years.

Today, Nigeria is Africa's richest country, but the money that is set aside for public infrastructure is often embezzled or stolen by government officials.

Prosecutors said that Ms. Febles, who worked for Mr. Salomon for more than a decade, from 2000 to 2011, embezzled the money by skimming from her boss's checking account.

A lawsuit brought by the parent union asserted that Barbara Bullock, president of the Washington Teachers' Union, made personal charges of more than $1.8 million on union credit cards and embezzled $381,000 more by writing checks to herself and others.