Questão jurídica principal
Whether the installment payments were entrusted within the meaning of embezzlement law
Decisão extraída
Yes. The payments were bound by the contractual and factual purpose of financing the houses and paying third-party building costs, so the relevant portion was entrusted.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that entrustment can arise from an express or implied purpose restriction and also from a factual trust relationship. Here, the payments had to be used for material and subcontractor debts, not for private or unrelated company debts.