Englishembezzle
verb
he was charged with embezzling more than $5,000 from a country club:
misappropriate, steal, rob, thieve, pilfer, appropriate, abstract, defraud someone of, siphon off, pocket, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, line one's pockets/purse with;
put one's hand in the till, dip into the public purse, commit white-collar crime, commit fraud;
informal rip off, filch, swipe, lift, skim, snaffle;
British, informal pinch, nick, half-inch, whip, nobble;
formal peculate, defalcate, purloin.