Embezzlement of property in the private sector

Embezzlement, misappropriation or other diversion of property by a public official

Unfortunately, we have also seen cases of graft, theft and embezzlement in the United Nations administrative structures.

Mr. Assor (Surrey Three Faiths Forum) drew attention to the embezzlement by the Frente POLISARIO of aid meant for refugees.

In 2004, she was arrested and, in 2006, sentenced to six and a half years on embezzlement and tax fraud charges.

Unfortunately, Wade turned out to be almost a caricature of the dozy African potentate for whom power, nepotism, and embezzlement become indistinguishable.

The position fell vacant after senior officials, many of them Gabonese, were discredited in an embezzlement scandal that erupted in October 2009.

This could prove important as he initiates yet another bogus show trial this time of the anti corruption activist Aleksei Navalny, now accused of embezzlement.

However, to the surprise of his supporters, an embezzlement of funds case dating back to July, 2011, kept the 30 year old man in prison.

1988 1989 Vice President, Court of First Instance, Niamey, while also serving as Judge, Special Court responsible for matters relating to embezzlement of public funds

Moreover, the court has given no explanation of why it is allowing him to be tried on the same embezzlement charge that of which he was acquitted in 2003.

Disillusion fully set in only one year after Medvedev s election, when a new case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was brought, this time for embezzlement of billions and money laundering.

The Government failed to provide an explanation of how someone could be found guilty for the embezzlement of objects which the owner himself gave Mr. Marynich for temporary use.

China introduced an online video game called Fight Corruption online and encouraged web users to play the game by claiming that everyone has a responsibility to fight corruption and embezzlement.

In South Kivu, the Governor of the province officially resumed his functions in early February, after having been recalled for alleged involvement in the embezzlement of funds in December 2004.

The treaty, among other things, requires Governments to pass criminal laws against the bribing of their own and foreign officials, and other corruption related acts such as embezzlement and money laundering.

Since 2003, when the billionaire oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested for alleged embezzlement and fraud after he dared to support Putin s political opponents Russia s elite has been largely brought to heel.

In 2003, Rosneft became an oil giant by grabbing most of Yukos, after that oil firm s head and chief shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arbitrarily prosecuted and imprisoned for embezzlement and tax evasion.

Houphouet s fondness for money and power was plain from the outset, and his regime offered no exception to the dismal African rule of corruption, fraud, cheating, cronyism, embezzlement, and weak law enforcement.

According to news website vozpópuli, Segura in his book alludes to alleged embezzlement, prevarication, negligence, false secondments, meal and petrol fraud, sale of data, summer homes, golf memberships, spas and VIP rooms.

Convinced that corruption has become a major international concern, taking many forms, from routine cases of bribery or petty abuse of power to the amassing of personal wealth through embezzlement or other dishonest means,

If proven that the Congressman was involved in these acts (typified as general misrepresentation, unjust enrichment and embezzlement by Peruvian law), Urtecho (who suffers from muscular hypotonia ) awaits a sentence of fifteen years in prison.

Probes into allegations of corruption are ongoing and the parliamentary inspectorate against corruption reported on 16 February that it had submitted to the Office of the Public Prosecutor three cases of embezzlement from the State, totalling some 420,000 United States dollars.

In this regard, the Committee recommends that the State party increase budgetary allocations for the social sector and make sure that revenues from oil and other sources is handled in a transparent manner in order to prevent embezzlement and corruption.

In these articles, he stated, inter alia, that the President was responsible for the destruction of the country and the calamitous situation of State institutions and was accountable for the promotion of incompetence, embezzlement and corruption as political and social values.

By a judgement of the Minsk District Court of 30 December 2004, Mr. Marynich was acquitted under article 295 (2), for failure to prove his participation in committing the offence, and found guilty under article 210 (4) (embezzlement through abuse of office).

On 20 August 2004, the KGB opened a criminal case against Mr. Marynich under article 210 (4) (embezzlement through abuse of office), and in November 2004 brought another case based on indication of an offence under article 377 (1) (theft or damage of documents, stamps and seals) these cases were joined with the criminal case initiated under article 295 (2) (illegal acts involving a firearm, ammunition and explosives).

Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally, the embezzlement, mis appropriation or other diversion by a public official for his or her benefit or for the benefit of another person or entity, of any property, public or private funds or securities or any other thing of value entrusted to the public official by virtue of his or her position.