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Reportedly given penalty for discovery (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fined

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'reportedly given' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'penalty for discovery' is the wordplay.
'penalty' becomes 'fine' (a financial penalty).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'discovery' becomes 'd' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'fine'+'d'='FINED'

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(Other definitions for fined that I've seen before include "Ordered to pay penalty" , "Imposed financial penalty on" , "Fed in (anag.)" , "Mulcted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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