{"id":199925,"date":"2025-06-11T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-israeli-businessman-sues-police-commissioner-for-m26m\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:49:00","slug":"lesotho-israeli-businessman-sues-police-commissioner-for-m26m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-israeli-businessman-sues-police-commissioner-for-m26m\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Israeli Businessman Sues Police Commissioner for M26m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">AN Israeli businessman has filed a staggering M26,285,756 lawsuit against the Commissioner of Police, Borotho Matsoso, over the alleged destruction of his cannabis business during a police raid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Tom Srugo, who lives in Thetsane West, Maseru, says the raid took place on 15 November 2024 at his company, Arcana Seeds PTY (LTD), in Masowe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">According to Mr Srugo, members of the Special Operations Unit (SOU) from Mabote Police Station stormed the premises, destroyed cannabis plants, seeds and flowers,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300456.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>AN Israeli businessman has filed a staggering M26,285,756 lawsuit against the Commissioner of Police, Borotho Matsoso, over the alleged destruction of his cannabis business during a police raid. Tom Srugo, who lives in Thetsane West, Maseru, says the raid took place on 15 November 2024 at his company, Arcana Seeds PTY (LTD), in Masowe. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199926,"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":[258,256,18594,6350,2670,4717,1407,51591,257,662,254,11600],"class_list":["post-199925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businessman","tag-commissioner","tag-israeli","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m26m","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues"],"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\/199925","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=199925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}