alleged

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In 2024, Treasury sanctioned Ly Yong Phat, a Cambodian senator and tycoon, for alleged human-rights abuses of scam workers in a casino resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border owned by one of his companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Although the alleged heist method was unique, the targeting of Lego is not.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

In its latest statement, police said another man, 66-year-old David Kilroy from Plymouth, had been charged with theft following an alleged incident of organised shoplifting at a Sainsbury's in Lewisham on 14 March 2026.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

But no one before or since has fallen into paroxysms of indignant rage over the alleged vapidity of middlebrow cultural efforts quite like Macdonald.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

And there is even some evidence that the scraggly weeds and dismal, sterile soil—perhaps even the stones hurled at Mercer by unseen alleged parties—are equally faked.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick