{"id":198178,"date":"2025-05-16T00:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pac-lays-bare-the-massive-corruption-at-m12-billion-pension-fund\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:24:55","slug":"lesotho-pac-lays-bare-the-massive-corruption-at-m12-billion-pension-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pac-lays-bare-the-massive-corruption-at-m12-billion-pension-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: PAC Lays Bare the Massive Corruption At M12 Billion Pension Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em><em>&#8230;Names corrupt trustees who have received kickbacks<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8211;Calls for their expulsion from Board of Trustees<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8211;Slates Akani and Mergence&#8217;s Semoli Mokhanoi for impropriety<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The massive corruption at Lesotho&#8217;s M12 billion Pension Fund has been laid bare in a report by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Some of the Fund&#8217;s trustees, according to the report, have accepted kickbacks from service providers competing for contracts from the Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Some trustees are business associates and friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150439.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;Names corrupt trustees who have received kickbacks &#8211;Calls for their expulsion from Board of Trustees &#8211;Slates Akani and Mergence&#8217;s Semoli Mokhanoi for impropriety The massive corruption at Lesotho&#8217;s M12 billion Pension Fund has been laid bare in a report by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Some of the Fund&#8217;s trustees, according to the report, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00281058:29f133ef4acf792188d2d966063fb0b2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,19936,6495,4723,5111,10634,4717,1407,51356,6958,257,18770,8450,254],"class_list":["post-198178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bare","tag-billion","tag-corruption","tag-fund","tag-lays","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m12","tag-massive","tag-news","tag-pac","tag-pension","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00281058:29f133ef4acf792188d2d966063fb0b2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198178","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=198178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}