He almost felt for a day or two the victim of a practical joke, a gross abuse of confidence.

Kerviel was formally charged on 28 January 2008 with abuse of confidence and illegal access to computers.

She feels sorry for the abuse of confidence she offended at her husband, and wants to make up for it again.

"Some aggravating detail, such as, for instance, forced entry, abuse of confidence, manifest deceit?"

The charges brought against Mr. Pineau-Valencienne include falsification of accounts, abuse of confidence and fraud.

Also arrested on Friday on similar charges, excluding abuse of confidence, was Italian banker Valentino Foti.

But union members are not satisfied: they also demand that he be prosecuted for fraud, illicit enrichment, theft, battery and abuse of confidence, and that the union's books be audited.

In the absence of such special legislation, sectarian organizations can be investigated on such grounds as embezzlement, money laundering, abuse of confidence, misappropriation of wills, illegal medical practice, and fraud.

Pineau-Valencienne, chairman of France's Schneider SA, an electrical engineering group, has been charged with forgery, fraud, abuse of confidence, embezzlement, falsifying of annual accounts and breach of accounting rules.

After their boutique on Paris's Place Vendome was searched, Judge Francois Chanut of the Tribunal of Paris charged the Chaumet brothers late Saturday with fraud and abuse of confidence.

The Swiss court rejected this argument, concluding that Mr. Walsh was investigating the diversion of funds that might have broken laws involving fraud, abuse of confidence and illegal enrichment, as well as laws limiting Federal funds for the contras.

Both Mielke and Tisch (who was under investigation for abuse of confidence and embezzlement and was formally arrested on July 20 for disloyalty detrimental to national property) were moved to a West Berlin prison hospital on Oct. 4.