{"id":190244,"date":"2025-02-01T04:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pg-reveals-details-of-pig-butchering-online-crypto-investment-scam\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T04:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:59:06","slug":"namibia-pg-reveals-details-of-pig-butchering-online-crypto-investment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pg-reveals-details-of-pig-butchering-online-crypto-investment-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: PG Reveals Details of &#8216;Pig Butchering&#8217; Online Crypto Investment Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Prosecutor general Martha Imalwa has revealed details of an online investment scam, known as &#8220;pig butchering&#8221;, which saw 15 people arrested in Namibia in October 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Imalwa reveals the details in a sworn statement filed at the Windhoek High Court in a case about cryptocurrency worth about N$2 million. The funds have now been declared forfeited to the state in terms of Namibia&#8217;s Prevention of Organised Crime Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The cryptocurrency is the proceeds of an investment scam that involved the creation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501300643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor general Martha Imalwa has revealed details of an online investment scam, known as &#8220;pig butchering&#8221;, which saw 15 people arrested in Namibia in October 2023. Imalwa reveals the details in a sworn statement filed at the Windhoek High Court in a case about cryptocurrency worth about N$2 million. The funds have now been declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190245,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,50546,26006,5737,6018,4706,724,257,6849,24429,14326,13731,254],"class_list":["post-190244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-butchering","tag-crypto","tag-details","tag-investment","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-online","tag-pig","tag-reveals","tag-scam","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\/190244","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=190244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}