A large-scale allegation of this kind has been levelled at Satyam Computer Services concerning the billion dollars missing from the company's coffers.
[2] Skimming may be necessitated by a third crime; for example, an otherwise honest businessman who pays taxes and does not cheat his partners might still be forced to skim some cash from the business and use it to give to an extortionist in the form of a bribe, kickbacks, or payment to a protection racket or loan shark or even a blackmailer.
[3] The report documented how pre-tax profits from casinos were being routed to various organized crime syndicates across the nation.
No one could be prosecuted as the FBI obtained its information by illegally bugging casino money rooms.
Other related usages can include things such as corrupt government officials "skimming" cash received as foreign aid.