11.   Brother Mike has been accused twice of embezzling funds from the foundation but was cleared by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

12.   Corruption among the top brass is also raging, and generals have been charged with embezzling state funds.

13.   Edzoa resigned his ministry in April and is facing charges of embezzling public funds.

14.   Espinosa, the former mayor of Mexico City, has been accused of embezzling funds during his tenure in that office.

15.   He declined to discuss his predecessor, who faces charges of embezzling funds through phony construction contracts.

16.   He had been out on bail since being convicted in July of embezzling public funds.

17.   He also faces allegations of embezzling funds earmarked for a small party he once headed.

18.   In November, the Iran newspaper reported that Karbaschi had been implicated with embezzling funds in the Boostan shopping complex project in western Tehran.

19.   Iranian newspapers have previously alleged that Karbaschi is accused of embezzling funds in a shopping complex project in western Tehran.

20.   Ivan Slavkov, son-in-law of former Communist strongman Todor Zhivkov, went on trial Monday on charges of embezzling funds from the Bulgarian Olympic Committee which he headed.