Question

I am an entrepreneur who has a trusted employee whom I entrusted to drive the company's inventory car. However, to make a long story short, the car went missing, and after investigating, I found out that the car was sold by my trusted employee.

In this case, I want to report my employee's actions. The question is, can these actions be categorized as embezzlement, fraud, or theft?

Embezzlement

Perhaps we need to know the definition of embezzlement before discussing it further. According to the Indonesian Dictionary, embezzlement is an act that involves the process, method, and act of embezzling or misappropriating goods illegally. In a more specific sense, embezzlement can be explained as behavior that damages the trust of others by not fulfilling promises and not behaving well.

Lamintang and Djisman Samosir stated that the term embezzlement should be interpreted as "abuse of rights" or "abuse of trust." Van Haeringen, as quoted by Lamintang and Djisman Samosir, provides the understanding that the term "verduistering" or "embezzlement" means "making everything dark" or "preventing light from shining."

In Article 372 of the Criminal Code, embezzlement is defined as the act of a person who intentionally and unlawfully, possesses an item that is wholly or partially the property of another person and is under their control without a legitimate reason.

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