{"id":177190,"date":"2024-07-24T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-malawis-kwacha-syndicate-exposed-after-zambia-bust\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:39:32","slug":"zambia-malawis-kwacha-syndicate-exposed-after-zambia-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-malawis-kwacha-syndicate-exposed-after-zambia-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Malawi&#8217;s Kwacha Syndicate Exposed After Zambia Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A sophisticated money laundering syndicate involving Malawi&#8217;s currency has been uncovered, spanning borders and leading to significant seizures in Zambia. Malawi state agencies are now working diligently to repatriate the impounded funds, exposing a complex network of currency smuggling and potential counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Two weeks ago, Zambia&#8217;s Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) apprehended two foreign nationals&#8211;Russian and American&#8211;found in possession of Malawian Kwacha totaling K42,184,000,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407240147.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sophisticated money laundering syndicate involving Malawi&#8217;s currency has been uncovered, spanning borders and leading to significant seizures in Zambia. Malawi state agencies are now working diligently to repatriate the impounded funds, exposing a complex network of currency smuggling and potential counterfeiting. Two weeks ago, Zambia&#8217;s Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) apprehended two foreign nationals&#8211;Russian and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,20155,17189,39346,13601,257,254,14519,4709,881],"class_list":["post-177190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bust","tag-exposed","tag-kwacha","tag-malawis","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-syndicate","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}