{"id":210585,"date":"2025-10-20T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-betting-company-defrauded-of-m10-million\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:06:51","slug":"lesotho-betting-company-defrauded-of-m10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-betting-company-defrauded-of-m10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Betting Company Defrauded of M10 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230;sues former director for allegedly stealing the funds<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">A local betting company, Worldstar Online Group Lesotho LTD, has taken its former director, Henry John Marquis, a South African national, to court for allegedly defrauding the company of more than M10 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">According to Richard Michael Nash, a British national who is the company&#8217;s majority shareholder, Mr Marquis, was appointed director of Worldstar on 9 March 2021, alongside Mervin Brody whose nationality is not indicated in court&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160663.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>&#8230;sues former director for allegedly stealing the funds A local betting company, Worldstar Online Group Lesotho LTD, has taken its former director, Henry John Marquis, a South African national, to court for allegedly defrauding the company of more than M10 million. According to Richard Michael Nash, a British national who is the company&#8217;s majority shareholder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210586,"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":[258,256,10081,7156,47861,4717,1407,31437,5118,257,254],"class_list":["post-210585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-betting","tag-company","tag-defrauded","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m10","tag-million","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/210585","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=210585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}