{"id":212256,"date":"2025-11-02T08:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chimombe-and-mpofu-sentencing-in-u-s-7m-presidential-goat-scheme-fraud-postponed-as-state-moves-to-forfeit-properties\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:25:52","slug":"zimbabwe-chimombe-and-mpofu-sentencing-in-u-s-7m-presidential-goat-scheme-fraud-postponed-as-state-moves-to-forfeit-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chimombe-and-mpofu-sentencing-in-u-s-7m-presidential-goat-scheme-fraud-postponed-as-state-moves-to-forfeit-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chimombe and Mpofu Sentencing in U.S.$7m Presidential Goat Scheme Fraud Postponed As State Moves to Forfeit Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">WOES continue to mount for jailed businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, with the State now seeking to confiscate their properties following their conviction in a US$7 million fraud case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The duo, who face a possible minimum 20-year jail term if convicted, will now be sentenced on November 17 after the State indicated its intention to apply for a confiscation order under Section 50(1) of the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act [Chapter 9:24].<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The law empowers authorities to trace,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511010012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOES continue to mount for jailed businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, with the State now seeking to confiscate their properties following their conviction in a US$7 million fraud case. The duo, who face a possible minimum 20-year jail term if convicted, will now be sentenced on November 17 after the State indicated its intention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,43492,40860,8666,27124,6858,9782,257,7397,6438,14665,11079,19728,254,6017,48881,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chimombe","tag-forfeit","tag-fraud","tag-goat","tag-moves","tag-mpofu","tag-news","tag-postponed","tag-presidential","tag-properties","tag-scheme","tag-sentencing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-u-s-7m","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212256","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=212256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}