{"id":178270,"date":"2024-08-10T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-defence-ministry-officials-accused-of-embezzlement\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:06:06","slug":"mozambique-defence-ministry-officials-accused-of-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-defence-ministry-officials-accused-of-embezzlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Defence Ministry Officials Accused of Embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) announced on Tuesday that it has begun criminal proceedings against three senior officials from the Defence Ministry accused of embezzling 52.3 million meticais (about 819,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">According to the GCCC spokesperson, Romualdo Johnam, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, at an event regarding the presentation of the activities carried out by the GCCC, during the first semester of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) announced on Tuesday that it has begun criminal proceedings against three senior officials from the Defence Ministry accused of embezzling 52.3 million meticais (about 819,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate). According to the GCCC spokesperson, Romualdo Johnam, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178271,"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":[654],"tags":[7083,258,256,6874,17052,6857,4704,682,257,6651,254],"class_list":["post-178270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defence","tag-embezzlement","tag-ministry","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/178270","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=178270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}