{"id":228386,"date":"2026-03-24T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-bookkeeper-in-court-for-externalising-u-s-4-million\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:58:43","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-bookkeeper-in-court-for-externalising-u-s-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-bookkeeper-in-court-for-externalising-u-s-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Bookkeeper in Court for Externalising U.S.$4 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A 76-year-old Harare woman has appeared in court facing charges of externalisation and money laundering involving more than US$4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maud Patricia Liddell appeared before magistrate Ruth Moyo, who granted her US$500 bail and ordered her to report to the police fortnightly as part of her bail conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Liddell, who is self-employed as a bookkeeper and administrator, was represented by lawyer Ashiel Mugiya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The State alleges that between March and May 2025, Liddell sold a property, Stand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old Harare woman has appeared in court facing charges of externalisation and money laundering involving more than US$4 million. Maud Patricia Liddell appeared before magistrate Ruth Moyo, who granted her US$500 bail and ordered her to report to the police fortnightly as part of her bail conditions. Liddell, who is self-employed as a bookkeeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,53992,6185,53993,500,5118,257,254,48193,4686,421],"class_list":["post-228386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bookkeeper","tag-court","tag-externalising","tag-harare","tag-million","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-4","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228386","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=228386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}