Este argumento queda anulado si el dinero de los impuestos se malversan llenando los bolsillos de los agricultores ricos y las multinacionales de la agricultura.

This argument is cancelled out if tax money is misused to line the pockets of rich farmers and agricultural multinationals.

malversar

to embezzle [embezzled · embezzled] {vb} [law]

No se debe malversar el dinero recaudado como resultado de la solidaridad de las clases bajas.

The money raised as a result of grass-roots solidarity must not be embezzled.

Es indignante que no se emitieran señales de alarma mientras se malversaban los fondos de Parmalat.

It is outrageous that no warning signals were sounded while Parmalat funds were being embezzled.

Así, ha perdido la oportunidad de recuperar una proporción considerable de al menos 8 millones de euros que se han malversado.

In so doing it missed the opportunity to recover a considerable proportion of the at least EUR8 million that had been embezzled.

malversar [malversando · malversado] {transitive verb}

malversar(also: aplicar mal)

to misapply [misapplied · misapplied] {v.t.}

malversar

to misappropriate [misappropriated · misappropriated] {v.t.}

Se ha malversado una parte de las ayudas a la antigua Yugoslavia y a la región de los Grandes Lagos de África, cuyos importes oscilan, al parecer, entre 500.000 y 1.500.000 ecus.

Part of the aid to former Yugoslavia and the Great Lakes region of Africa has been misappropriated, to a total thought to be between ECU 500 000 and 1 500 000.

Grandes cantidades de polonio, una sustancia radiactiva procedente de las plantas nucleares rusas, han sido malversadas y transportadas por toda Europa sin que nadie sepa cómo ha podido ocurrir.

Large quantities of polonium, a highly radioactive substance from the Russian nuclear cities, are misappropriated, transported all over Europe, and no one knows how it can have happened.

CONTEXT EXAMPLES

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No se debe malversar el dinero recaudado como resultado de la solidaridad de las clases bajas.

The money raised as a result of grass-roots solidarity must not be embezzled.

No se debe malversar el dinero recaudado como resultado de la solidaridad de las clases bajas.

A newspaper in the United States terrifyingly wrote that the rich nations are providing the aid and they will dictate the terms.

Hoy, se ha vuelto a intentar malversar los fondos y las normas existentes para solucionar los problemas transfronterizos.

Today, another attempt has been made to misuse funds and rules that exist to solve cross-border problems.

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