Sentence examples for embezzlement of state from inspiring English sources

Mr. Aristide's opponents have accused him of human rights violations and embezzlement of state money.

The investigation into Lagarde was opened in August 2011, on suspicion of possible complicity in the embezzlement of state funds.

If so, the full extent of the endemic corruption and embezzlement of state funds by many of South Sudan's elite, thought to total $4bn £2.76bnn) over the past five years, may be publicly exposed.

Likely charges concern his purchase of a state villa at a bargain price, the possible embezzlement of state funds and accusations of his involvement in a number of unsolved killings that occurred while he was in power.

Leila Trabelsi, the politically ambitious wife of Tunisia's Zine AliAbidine Ben Ali, was easily the most detested, a monstrous symbol of nepotism and corruption, whose embezzlement of state wealth made Imelda Marcos's nearly 3,000 pair of shoes seem trifling.

Leila Trabelsi, the politically ambitious wife of Tunisia's Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, was easily the most detested, a monstrous symbol of nepotism and corruption, whose embezzlement of state wealth made Imelda Marcos's nearly 3,000 pair of shoes seem trifling.

On Monday, in a parallel case, Xi's government charged Lieutenant General Gu Junshan with bribery, embezzlement, misuse of state funds, and abuse of power in what Jonathan Ansfield, of the Times, says "may be the biggest corruption scandal to engulf the Chinese military".

Ben Ali was sentenced in absentia last June, along with his wife Leila, to 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of state funds.

In Kyrgyzstan, Maxim Bakiyev was convicted in absentia, in a series of cases over 2013 and 2014, for attempted murder, embezzlement of millions in state funds, illegal privatization of public land and corruption in selling off state assets; he received sentences varying from 25 years to life.

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.

But the technique is mainly used by individuals concealing money gained through bribery, embezzlement or the stripping of the assets of state corporations, said a corporate lawyer in Beijing.