{"id":223519,"date":"2026-02-11T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-acting-kharas-chief-regional-officer-and-girlfriend-in-court-for-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:27:25","slug":"namibia-acting-kharas-chief-regional-officer-and-girlfriend-in-court-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-acting-kharas-chief-regional-officer-and-girlfriend-in-court-for-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Acting ||kharas Chief Regional Officer and Girlfriend in Court for Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The acting chief regional officer for the ||Kharas Regional Council at Keetmanshoop, Ralph Sachika, and his girlfriend, Lucia Jacob, appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The couple is charged with fraud, forgery, money laundering and corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The charges stem from an alleged payment of N$2.9 million meant for August 26 Construction, that Sachika reportedly authorised to be paid to a third-party company account, Tushiko Investments CC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110090.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>The acting chief regional officer for the ||Kharas Regional Council at Keetmanshoop, Ralph Sachika, and his girlfriend, Lucia Jacob, appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday. The couple is charged with fraud, forgery, money laundering and corruption. The charges stem from an alleged payment of N$2.9 million meant for August 26 Construction, that Sachika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223520,"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":[8865,258,256,6510,6185,8666,14635,17172,4706,724,257,10869,4268,254],"class_list":["post-223519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-acting","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-court","tag-fraud","tag-girlfriend","tag-kharas","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-officer","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\/223519","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=223519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}