{"id":221450,"date":"2026-01-22T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-alleged-n3-9-million-fraud-linked-to-kharas-regional-council\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:40:58","slug":"namibia-alleged-n3-9-million-fraud-linked-to-kharas-regional-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-alleged-n3-9-million-fraud-linked-to-kharas-regional-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Alleged N$3.9 Million Fraud Linked to Kharas Regional Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Documents bearing the state-owned company August 26 Construction&#8217;s letterhead were allegedly used to steal N$3.9 million from the ||Kharas Regional Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The allegations are contained in a statement submitted to the police by August 26 Construction managing director Jacobina Endjala in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">According to the statement, the money was paid in October 2024 to a close corporation called Tushiko Investment Technology, a company linked to businessman Titus Iipumbu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601220036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents bearing the state-owned company August 26 Construction&#8217;s letterhead were allegedly used to steal N$3.9 million from the ||Kharas Regional Council. The allegations are contained in a statement submitted to the police by August 26 Construction managing director Jacobina Endjala in November 2024. According to the statement, the money was paid in October 2024 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221451,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,4305,6158,8666,17172,12237,5118,53468,4706,724,257,4268,254],"class_list":["post-221450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-council","tag-fraud","tag-kharas","tag-linked","tag-million","tag-n3-9","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-regional","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\/221450","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=221450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}