Key legal question
Whether purpose-bound loans created a duty of value preservation and could support embezzlement.
Extracted holding
Yes. Where the loan was granted for a specific property transaction and this purpose was a decisive contractual element limiting the lender's risk, the borrower had a duty to preserve the value and to use the money only for that purpose.
Extracted reasoning
A loan without a designated purpose is freely disposable and cannot be embezzled. Here, however, the lenders advanced funds only for the contemplated property deal, with security arrangements and the aim of later repayment from the gain. That contractual purpose created a fiduciary duty to hold and apply the funds accordingly; using them for personal needs fulfilled embezzlement.