verb

steal or misappropriate (money placed in one’s trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).

she had embezzled £5,600,000 in company funds

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,rip off,filch,swipe,lift,skim,snaffle,pinch,nick,half-inch,whip,nobble,peculate,defalcate,purloin