{"id":229758,"date":"2026-04-07T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishrot-accused-lose-supreme-court-challenge-over-seized-assets\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:31:19","slug":"namibia-fishrot-accused-lose-supreme-court-challenge-over-seized-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishrot-accused-lose-supreme-court-challenge-over-seized-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Fishrot Accused Lose Supreme Court Challenge Over Seized Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><em>The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to an attempt by three of the accused in the Fishrot fraud, corruption and racketeering case to restrict the prosecutor general&#8217;s use of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (Poca) to obtain asset restraint orders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">An appeal of former attorney general and minister of justice Sacky Shanghala, James Hatuikulipi and Pius Mwatelulo against a Poca restraint order in respect of a wide range of assets belonging to them was dismissed in the Supreme Court in Windhoek on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070490.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 Supreme Court has dealt a blow to an attempt by three of the accused in the Fishrot fraud, corruption and racketeering case to restrict the prosecutor general&#8217;s use of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (Poca) to obtain asset restraint orders. An appeal of former attorney general and minister of justice Sacky Shanghala, James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229759,"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":[7083,258,256,9917,7485,6185,31744,9569,4706,724,257,7936,254,9498],"class_list":["post-229758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assets","tag-challenge","tag-court","tag-fishrot","tag-lose","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-seized","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"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\/229758","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=229758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}