{"id":215163,"date":"2025-11-28T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-leribe-police-in-fraud-and-robbery-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:37:14","slug":"lesotho-leribe-police-in-fraud-and-robbery-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-leribe-police-in-fraud-and-robbery-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Leribe Police in Fraud and Robbery Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>T<\/em>WO Leribe police officers are accused of conniving with a 49-year-old woman, Ntebaleng Chaka, to defraud &#8216;Mammethe Maphokoane of M5000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Chaka appeared before Magistrate Thoora Semela in the Leribe Magistrate Court this week facing robbery and fraud charges, while her co-accused are yet to be arraigned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">According to the charge sheet, Chaka, from Hlotse Lisemeng 1, conspired with these two police officers to deceive an unsuspecting Ms Maphokoane into purchasing non-existent mercury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280051.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>TWO Leribe police officers are accused of conniving with a 49-year-old woman, Ntebaleng Chaka, to defraud &#8216;Mammethe Maphokoane of M5000. Chaka appeared before Magistrate Thoora Semela in the Leribe Magistrate Court this week facing robbery and fraud charges, while her co-accused are yet to be arraigned. According to the charge sheet, Chaka, from Hlotse Lisemeng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215164,"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":[258,256,8666,14593,4717,1407,257,662,1460,7454,254],"class_list":["post-215163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fraud","tag-leribe","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-scandal","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\/215163","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=215163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}