{"id":226986,"date":"2026-03-16T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pleebo-magistrate-under-investigation-over-alleged-l35000-extortion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:22:51","slug":"liberia-pleebo-magistrate-under-investigation-over-alleged-l35000-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pleebo-magistrate-under-investigation-over-alleged-l35000-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Pleebo Magistrate Under Investigation Over Alleged L$35,000 Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">An associate magistrate assigned to the Pleebo City Court is under investigation following allegations that he extorted L$35,000 from defendants involved in a boundary dispute case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The investigation was announced by Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr., who disclosed that his office had received a formal complaint accusing Magistrate Emmanuel Nyepah of demanding money from individuals appearing before the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Chief Justice Gbeisay revealed the probe during a recent visit to Harper, where he inspected the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130354.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An associate magistrate assigned to the Pleebo City Court is under investigation following allegations that he extorted L$35,000 from defendants involved in a boundary dispute case. The investigation was announced by Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr., who disclosed that his office had received a formal complaint accusing Magistrate Emmanuel Nyepah of demanding money from individuals appearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226987,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4305,8735,6834,53919,4712,1107,17492,257,32740,254],"class_list":["post-226986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-extortion","tag-investigation","tag-l35000","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-magistrate","tag-news","tag-pleebo","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\/226986","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}