fraudulent conversion
noun[U]
LAWukustheactof usingmoneyorpropertythat is notyourown forillegalordishonestpurposes:
Thehigh-profilebrokerpleadedguiltytochargesoffraudulentconversionofclients'funds.
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It created offences offraudulentconversion.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thefraudulentconversionof taxpayers' money is bad enough, but it is only one aspect.
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I am informed that six solicitors have been convicted offraudulentconversionduring the period mentioned.
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If they do not, is there not some means of dealing with them in cases offraudulentconversion, embezzlement, or something of that sort?
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In a way it does not have quite the connotation of fraud orfraudulentconversion.
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Is there ground for criminal proceedings, for obtaining money by false pretences with intent to defraud, forfraudulentconversionor publishing a fraudulent prospectus?
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Clauses 1 to 6 deal with the new offence of theft, which will replace the existing offences of larceny, embezzlement andfraudulentconversion.
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He was then tried forfraudulentconversionof the £117 and was, in fact, acquitted.
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The offence offraudulentconversionwill also disappear.
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For thatfraudulentconversionhe is now serving a sentence of four years' imprisonment.
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