{"id":199448,"date":"2025-06-04T01:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dcp-makharilele-named-in-m32m-fokothi-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:34:51","slug":"lesotho-dcp-makharilele-named-in-m32m-fokothi-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dcp-makharilele-named-in-m32m-fokothi-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: DCP Makharilele Named in M32m Fokothi Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>&#8230;but trial stalls as he takes his fight to the Constitutional Court<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Hopolang Mokhopi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">DEPUTY Commissioner of Police (DCP), Sera Makharilele, has appeared before Magistrate &#8216;Mamorojele Qoo, facing charges of defeating and interfering with the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He is accused of giving misleading information to forensic auditors investigating a massive M32 million fraud case involving Lerotholi Polytechnic, commonly known as Fokothi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">However, his arraignment was deferred after he raised a question&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020641.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;but trial stalls as he takes his fight to the Constitutional Court Hopolang Mokhopi DEPUTY Commissioner of Police (DCP), Sera Makharilele, has appeared before Magistrate &#8216;Mamorojele Qoo, facing charges of defeating and interfering with the course of justice. He is accused of giving misleading information to forensic auditors investigating a massive M32 million fraud case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199449,"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":[258,256,51523,51526,8666,4717,1407,51525,51524,11325,257,254],"class_list":["post-199448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dcp","tag-fokothi","tag-fraud","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m32m","tag-makharilele","tag-named","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\/199448","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=199448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}