{"id":202319,"date":"2025-07-13T03:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-springfield-rejects-100m-fraud-claims-by-petraco-threatens-defamation-suit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:04:52","slug":"ghana-springfield-rejects-100m-fraud-claims-by-petraco-threatens-defamation-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-springfield-rejects-100m-fraud-claims-by-petraco-threatens-defamation-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Springfield Rejects $100m Fraud Claims By Petraco &#8211; Threatens Defamation Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (SEP) has rejected what it described as &#8220;false and unfounded&#8221; allegations stemming from a petition reportedly submitted by Petraco Oil Company SA to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a statement issued in Accra yesterday, the indigenous upstream oil and gas firm said the claims being circulated in the media misrepresent a purely commercial dispute currently under arbitration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">According to Springfield, the petition and resulting media&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090438.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>Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (SEP) has rejected what it described as &#8220;false and unfounded&#8221; allegations stemming from a petition reportedly submitted by Petraco Oil Company SA to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). In a statement issued in Accra yesterday, the indigenous upstream oil and gas firm said the claims being circulated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202320,"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":[22499,258,256,8117,7356,8666,4508,4509,257,51851,8440,254,49911,7628,10413],"class_list":["post-202319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-100m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-defamation","tag-fraud","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-petraco","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-springfield","tag-suit","tag-threatens"],"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\/202319","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=202319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}