"Pelican" <
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If only you had any idea of what embezzlement means. It refers to the
process of an employee dishonestly taking his or her employer's money. It
can't be simple stealing, because stealing requires the offender obtaining
possession dishonestly. Where employees obtain possession honestly, as part
of their employment, but then dishonestly take it as their own, it can't be
simple stealing. So, the legislature created a statutory offence of
embezzlement to cover the case of employees who obtain possession lawfully,
but who then dishonestly take the employer's money.
You formulated the subject. It's nonsense to talk about an employee
"embezzling" money from NSW Education, or anyone other than the employer.
Follow?
>> The property next to me was according to ICAC bought with money ($2.4
>> million) obtained by embezzlement of the NSWFB. The matter has been
>> handed to the DPP in 2006 who are still looking into formulating
>> charges
If an employee did embezzled money from the NSWFB, that might be so. But, I
rather suspect that the employee didn't get possession of $2.4m of the
NSWFB's money. They might have been in a position to obtain those funds,
whether by drawing a cheque or making an electronic transfer dishonestly.
That kind of fraud by an employee isn't strictly embezzlement either.