{"id":201691,"date":"2025-07-05T02:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-10-arrested-for-illegal-gold-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T02:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:46:51","slug":"ghana-10-arrested-for-illegal-gold-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-10-arrested-for-illegal-gold-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 10 Arrested for Illegal Gold Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Ten Chinese have been arrested by the Ghana Gold Board Task Force for engaging in illegal gold trading and smuggling activities, in a major crackdown at Asankragwa in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The arrest, conducted in collaboration with the National Security Secretariat, followed intensified operations by the Gold Board (GoldBod) to curb illicit gold dealings which threaten the stability of country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The suspects were apprehended in a private residence which they had turned into an illegal gold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040689.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Chinese have been arrested by the Ghana Gold Board Task Force for engaging in illegal gold trading and smuggling activities, in a major crackdown at Asankragwa in the Western Region. The arrest, conducted in collaboration with the National Security Secretariat, followed intensified operations by the Gold Board (GoldBod) to curb illicit gold dealings which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201692,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4304,4508,4509,4644,6918,257,254,5979],"class_list":["post-201691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-gold","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"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\/201691","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=201691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}