{"id":217594,"date":"2025-12-21T22:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-revolution-for-prosperity-mps-transport-firm-in-m3-5-million-tollgate-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:38:27","slug":"lesotho-revolution-for-prosperity-mps-transport-firm-in-m3-5-million-tollgate-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-revolution-for-prosperity-mps-transport-firm-in-m3-5-million-tollgate-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Revolution for Prosperity MP&#8217;s Transport Firm in M3.5 Million Tollgate Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">HIPPO Transport, owned by the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP)&#8217;s Peka MP, Mohopoli Monokoane, is accused of conspiring with a Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) agent to defraud the Road Fund of more than M3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Court papers filed the Road Fund last week paint a picture of a scheme that went undetected for nearly four years, from April 2018 to December 2021, before it was exposed by a whistleblower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to the Road Fund, the fraud involved tollgate officials accepting cash for personal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180168.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>HIPPO Transport, owned by the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP)&#8217;s Peka MP, Mohopoli Monokoane, is accused of conspiring with a Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) agent to defraud the Road Fund of more than M3.5 million. Court papers filed the Road Fund last week paint a picture of a scheme that went undetected for nearly four years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217595,"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":[258,256,7559,8666,4717,1407,53188,5118,7260,257,12870,14191,254,38628,8343],"class_list":["post-217594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-firm","tag-fraud","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m3-5","tag-million","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-prosperity","tag-revolution","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tollgate","tag-transport"],"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\/217594","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=217594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}