{"id":197034,"date":"2025-04-29T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dceo-battles-to-counter-illicit-money-flows\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:46:39","slug":"lesotho-dceo-battles-to-counter-illicit-money-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dceo-battles-to-counter-illicit-money-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: DCEO Battles to Counter Illicit Money Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>&#8230;As Lesotho debt distress rises<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><strong>The D<\/strong>irectorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) is struggling to curb the rampant illicit financial flows (IFFs) due to weak and compromised systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">DCEO&#8217;s Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Advocate Mponeng Ranthithi, told the <em>Lesotho Times<\/em> this week that the Directorate was battling to tackle growing illicit financial flows effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Although Adv Ranthithi could not provide exact statistics, she said they faced major challenges in combating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;As Lesotho debt distress rises The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) is struggling to curb the rampant illicit financial flows (IFFs) due to weak and compromised systems. DCEO&#8217;s Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Advocate Mponeng Ranthithi, told the Lesotho Times this week that the Directorate was battling to tackle growing illicit financial flows effectively. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,10981,16876,13434,7344,9926,4717,1407,5108,257,254],"class_list":["post-197034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battles","tag-counter","tag-dceo","tag-flows","tag-illicit","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-money","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197034","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=197034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}