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Cook the books

To change numbers in financial records of a company or  organisation in order to steal money from it or  disguise embezzlement.

“The management of the state-owned company was cooking the books for years in order to claim huge bonuses.”

WORDS
embezzlement: a theft, fraud.

 

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