Offences of embezzlement were formerly created by sections 18 and 19 of the Larceny Act 1916.
He took advantage of his position to commit a long series of financial abuses, causing the ruin of the Papal treasury.
Criminal law consolidation Acts: The death penalty is limited to murder, embezzlement, piracy, high treason and to acts of arson perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots; the age of consent is codified as twelve.
3,000 billion Toman embezzlement in Iran (also 2,800 billion embezzlement, approximately $2.6 billion USD) was a fraud involving the use of forged documents to obtain credit from at least seven Iranian state and private banks to purchase state-owned companies.
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Ahmad Tavakkoli member of parliament said on Sunday (18 September 2011) that the embezzlement of 28 trillion rials (3,000 billion Toman) is an intolerable scandal, adding that if administration officials are not able to handle the affairs, they should step down.
McPherson was represented at trial by Grady C. Irvin, who earned fame representing former National Baptist Convention President Henry Lyons on embezzlement charges in the late 1990s, and Charles "Chuck" Hobbs, who later garnered national attention while representing several Florida A&M University students in the "Kappa Hazing" trial televised on CourtTV in 2006.
During 2006, the SPÖ was handicapped by its involvement in the "BAWAG scandal" in which directors of the BAWAG, an Austrian bank owned by the Austrian Trade Union Federation (Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund, ÖGB), were accused of corruption, embezzlement and illicit speculation.
In addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens (Ponzi schemes; real estate and other investment frauds; bank robbery; identity theft; medical fraud; embezzlement; insurance fraud; murder-for-hire; art theft; credit card fraud; and, money laundering) are also featured.
André Tarallo (born in 1927 in Centuri, Haute-Corse), commonly known as Monsieur Africa, was a French businessman who worked as the top manager of African affairs for French petroleum company Elf Aquitane from the late 1970s until his arrest in the 1990s for embezzlement.
of embezzlement and abuse of his official position as former head of Naftogaz.
A new investigation was started by the United States Postal Service, which eventually submitted a report which was held in silence by Speaker Thomas Foley (D-WA) until media reports of embezzlement and money laundering leaked out in 1992.
In 1993, a book by Coyne Steven Sanders about the history of Judy Garland's CBS Television series The Judy Garland Show (1963–64) devoted a chapter to possible embezzlement of Garland's funds by Begelman.
Elena Băsescu's association with Monica Iacob Ridzi, who has been accused of embezzlement before she resigned as Youth Minister in 2009, was exploited by Romanian media critical of Traian Băsescu like Realitatea TV.
Whitehall Court is an apartment block built in 1883-87 by the architect firm Archer & Green, with finance from the disgraced MP Jabez Balfour, who used the building's construction to conceal his embezzlement of funds.
Ronnie does not know that his father, Frederick Willoughby (Lester Matthews), is actually in San Quentin State Prison, framed for embezzlement by his employer, Edward Martin (Joseph Crehan) of the Western Packing Company, to cover his own criminal activities.
Björgólfur Guðmundsson, Hafskip's managing director, and the Hafskip executives Pill Bragi Kristjónsson, Ragnar Kjartansson and the company's auditor, Helgi Magnússon, were detained and later charged with 450 criminal counts, from embezzlement to fraud.
On 21 May 2011, he was banned from public offices for four years because he was exposed as having a part in a multi-million dollar embezzlement during the construction of a building in Kish Island.
His 1954 film noir triller Loophole is a fast-paced, well-acted drama about a bank teller framed for a $50,000 embezzlement and his efforts to clear his name, and his 1957 Dragoon Wells Massacre is, despite its potboiler title, an actionful, tightly made western with some surprising plot twists in which many of the characters aren't quite what they seem to be.
Ali Allawi, the Finance Minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government, accused al-Shaalan of embezzlement in 2005, and Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission for Public Integrity, sought to bar him from running in the following parliamentary elections.
Among other accusations of Shema's embezzlement is construction of government house in Niamey, Niger Republic.
In 2000, Barbalho was the President of the PMDB party and Senator when a wave of corruption allegations against him took national headlines, involving embezzlement of public funds at the Superintendência de Desenvolvimento da Amazônia (SUDAM - Superintendence for Amazon's Development) development agency and the Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA - National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform).
In January 2013, along with several other people, including fellow footballers, Coppinger faced a race-fixing inquiry with allegations of corruption in gambling on horses to lose on Betting exchanges in nine races between 1 November 2010 and 31 March 2011.
The mining projects at Kolubara have been plagued with corruption: in 2011, 16 current and former members of Elektroprivreda Srbije, the operator, were arrested on suspicion of embezzlement.
The international embezzlement scandal involving allegations of money laundering through local branches of the Hypo Group Alpe Adria bank was publicly talked about for the first time in Kontraplan.
His assassin was a 34-year-old man, Eletise Leafa Vitale, the son of Leafa Vitale who had been the previous Minister of Public Works (and who had been dismissed from that position the preceding November by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, following a scandal involving accusations of embezzlement of public funds).
During the Wonderful Parliament of 1386 he was impeached on charges of embezzlement and negligence, a victim of increasing tensions between Parliament and Richard.
Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein dismissed Habeb from his post as Mayor on July 30, 2008, accusing him of incompetence, embezzlement, insubordination, and abuse of power.
(January 14, 1947 – November 27, 1996) was the county prosecutor of Somerset County, New Jersey who fled to Laughlin, Nevada and took his own life after being charged with embezzlement, tax fraud and abuse of power.
Owning Mahowny is based on a real-life incident: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce clerk Brian Molony embezzled over $10 million from his employers in just 18 months to support his gambling habit.
In April 2003, the councillors of Pichilemu Roberto Córdova, Aldo Polanco, Washington Saldías, and Carlos Leyton filed a complaint for the crimes of embezzlement, falsification of public documents, fraud, incompatible negotiation, bribery, fraud and conspiracy against the former head of the Department of Community Development of Pichilemu, Héctor Vargas.
One officer employed in Oslo Police District was sentenced in 2006 to two years in prison for human trafficking, embezzlement of money and weapons, as well as theft of emergency passports.
As the family gets closer and closer to the truth, involving tales of embezzlement, rape, money laundering, contributions to the Irish Republican Army and Mafia involvement, their lives become increasingly parallel to that of their ancestors.
For this purpose, he blackmails into submission an innocent-looking chauffeur called Vimal (whose actual name is Sardar Surender Singh Sohal), a criminal wanted for embezzlement in Allahabad (he didn't do it), murder of Lady Shanta Gokuldas in Bombay (he had to do it to prevent rape and death of a girl), the robbery of gate money at Anna Stadium Madras (he was blackmailed into it).
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America.
Attorney Walter Fielding and his girlfriend Anna Crowley learn of Walter Sr.'s wedding in Rio de Janeiro, escaping the country after having embezzled millions of dollars from their musician clients.
RaeJean served as the postmaster of Chatanika, a small town north of Fairbanks, until 1977 when she was convicted of embezzlement and postal money order fraud.