{"id":228097,"date":"2026-03-23T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-court-convicts-21-defendants-and-acquits-six-in-agt-2025-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:51:06","slug":"angola-court-convicts-21-defendants-and-acquits-six-in-agt-2025-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-court-convicts-21-defendants-and-acquits-six-in-agt-2025-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Court Convicts 21 Defendants and Acquits Six in Agt 2025 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Luanda \u2014 Luanda&#8217;s First Instance Court on Thursday convicted 21 defendants and acquitted 6 in the case of the General Tax Administration (AGT) of 2025, after a three-month trial, with prison sentences ranging from three to nine years and six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The decision concluded that the convicted defendants defrauded the Angolan state of more than 100 billion kwanzas, in one of the biggest financial scandals recorded in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Among those convicted, Al\u00edpio Jo\u00e3o, Pedro Lumingo, Tiago dos Santos&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200219.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Luanda&#8217;s First Instance Court on Thursday convicted 21 defendants and acquitted 6 in the case of the General Tax Administration (AGT) of 2025, after a three-month trial, with prison sentences ranging from three to nine years and six months. The decision concluded that the convicted defendants defrauded the Angolan state of more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228098,"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":[4262],"tags":[19960,258,256,15031,3941,4263,6683,7646,6185,23828,257,254],"class_list":["post-228097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-acquits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agt","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-case","tag-convicts","tag-court","tag-defendants","tag-news","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\/228097","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=228097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}