{"id":199993,"date":"2025-06-12T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-despite-uk-court-judgement-nigerian-senator-claims-wife-innocent-of-money-laundering-mess\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:48:50","slug":"nigeria-despite-uk-court-judgement-nigerian-senator-claims-wife-innocent-of-money-laundering-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-despite-uk-court-judgement-nigerian-senator-claims-wife-innocent-of-money-laundering-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Despite UK Court Judgement, Nigerian Senator Claims Wife Innocent of Money Laundering Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>The senator&#8217;s response largely went off on a tangent in an apparent effort to confuse the public.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Just a day after PREMIUM TIMES reported that the wife of Kaduna South Senator Sunday Katung is involved in a money laundering mess in the UK, the senator has defended his family against any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">A recent UK court proceeding granted a forfeiture order on a property paid for by Mrs Katung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The court ordered the UK&#8217;s National Crime Agency (NCA) to take possession and recover the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senator&#8217;s response largely went off on a tangent in an apparent effort to confuse the public. Just a day after PREMIUM TIMES reported that the wife of Kaduna South Senator Sunday Katung is involved in a money laundering mess in the UK, the senator has defended his family against any wrongdoing. A recent UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199994,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,8117,6185,19772,10202,9119,10100,5108,257,4687,393,482,7798,254,8963],"class_list":["post-199993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-court","tag-innocent","tag-judgement","tag-laundering","tag-mess","tag-money","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wife"],"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\/199993","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}