{"id":180526,"date":"2024-09-13T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-duo-in-courts-over-botched-attempt-to-fleece-grain-marketing-board-of-u-s-13m\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:01:07","slug":"zimbabwe-duo-in-courts-over-botched-attempt-to-fleece-grain-marketing-board-of-u-s-13m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-duo-in-courts-over-botched-attempt-to-fleece-grain-marketing-board-of-u-s-13m\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Duo in Courts Over Botched Attempt to Fleece Grain Marketing Board of U.S.$1,3m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Two Harare men, Dennis Nhapata and Challenge Phiri, appeared in court yesterday charged with fraud after they attempted to fleece the Grain Marketing Board of US$1,3 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Harare regional magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa remanded the duo in custody to today for possible bail considerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">GMB is being represented by Mr Misheck Mupondiwa, who is the integrity officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nhapata and Phiri allegedly hacked into GMB accountant Mr Parrence Chikerema&#8217;s email and used it to send instructions to banks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409130237.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Harare men, Dennis Nhapata and Challenge Phiri, appeared in court yesterday charged with fraud after they attempted to fleece the Grain Marketing Board of US$1,3 million. Harare regional magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa remanded the duo in custody to today for possible bail considerations. GMB is being represented by Mr Misheck Mupondiwa, who is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8083,6727,13593,8732,7593,49517,10765,8654,257,254,49518,4686,421],"class_list":["post-180526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempt","tag-board","tag-botched","tag-courts","tag-duo","tag-fleece","tag-grain","tag-marketing","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-13m","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180526","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=180526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}