{"id":205007,"date":"2025-08-19T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pair-charged-with-multi-million-rand-fraud-in-lesotho-highlands-water-project\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:17:06","slug":"lesotho-pair-charged-with-multi-million-rand-fraud-in-lesotho-highlands-water-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pair-charged-with-multi-million-rand-fraud-in-lesotho-highlands-water-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Pair Charged With Multi-Million Rand Fraud in Lesotho Highlands Water Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em> Moeketsi Victor Williams and business partner Mabohlokoa Itumeleng Chaka allegedly siphoned off R4.5-million from one of the contracting companies <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moeketsi Victor Williams, former managing director of SM Consulting Engineers, and his business partner, Mabohlokoa Itumeleng Chaka, have been charged with fraud and money laundering.<\/li>\n<li>The pair are accused of using their company, Green Energy Logistics and Consulting, to divert M4.5-million (R4.5-million) from Lesotho Highlands Water Project payments&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190390.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>Moeketsi Victor Williams and business partner Mabohlokoa Itumeleng Chaka allegedly siphoned off R4.5-million from one of the contracting companies Moeketsi Victor Williams, former managing director of SM Consulting Engineers, and his business partner, Mabohlokoa Itumeleng Chaka, have been charged with fraud and money laundering. The pair are accused of using their company, Green Energy Logistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205008,"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":[258,256,7081,8666,11327,4717,1407,14628,257,13056,6504,4908,254,6722],"class_list":["post-205007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-fraud","tag-highlands","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-multimillion","tag-news","tag-pair","tag-project","tag-rand","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"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\/205007","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=205007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}