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the embezzled
verb
To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
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Prosecutors said the embezzled amount could be more than 200 million euros ($255 million).
He looks likely to avoid a custodial sentence if he agrees in principle to pay all the embezzled funds back, which is a good result.
"Kabul Bank has been put into receivership, and efforts are under way to recover the embezzled assets from the former shareholders of the bank, which will limit the fiscal costs of the crisis," Mr. Schimmelpfennig said.
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The embezzling rascal hero of Canqun ("The Military Counselor") became a stock character in later plays.
The first element begins by pointing to our initial case of the embezzling bank manager.
This might seem promising: the point of the embezzling bank manager case might seem to be that there would need to be some non-ethical difference between cases natural or not in order for there to be an ethical difference in the bank manager's actions.
Second, the crucial cases used to support supervenience like the embezzling banker case seem to involve conceivability reasoning: we are asked to consider two circumstances that are identical in all base respects, and notice that we cannot make sense of the idea that they differ in ethical respects.
Even though you have to enter through a backroom vault with a secret code, we promise it's all completely legal — quite unlike the embezzling exploits of 1920s bankers Max Garfunkel and Marcus Tauster, whose former office building is the exact location of Garfunkel's, which sits above burger joint the Burgary.
And just to keep the soap opera going, there are also accusations that the brothers embezzled money from the company; one figure being mentioned suggests $2 million is missing.
Moreover, when we discuss corruption in Nigeria, we usually focus on the headline figures, the billions embezzled by politicians.
A Russian contractor hired to restore the house embezzled $17,000 of the $25,000 he was paid, and that first winter in the house "everyone almost froze to death," growls Bantle, still livid.
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