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図る(はかる) A fairly neutral word for ‘to scheme or plan':‘The committee plans to raise interest rates’
 
企てる(くわだてる) Unlike 図る、企てる is more negative:to scheme, to be up to something. To be hatching a nefarious plan.   $$$
 
謀る(はかる) To plot a murder! Murder most fouuullll!!! (Almost never used.)