{"id":244313,"date":"2026-09-14T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-three-caught-red-handed-in-alleged-attempt-to-steal-800000-liters-of-fuel\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:00:33","slug":"mozambique-three-caught-red-handed-in-alleged-attempt-to-steal-800000-liters-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-three-caught-red-handed-in-alleged-attempt-to-steal-800000-liters-of-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Three Caught Red-Handed in Alleged Attempt to Steal 800,000 Liters of Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has arrested two Zimbabwean truck drivers and a Mozambican customs officer while they were attempting to steal 800,000 liters of fuel using forged documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The case follows an investigation into a similar crime last May, when approximately 400,000 liters of diesel bound for central province Manica were allegedly diverted using fraudulent transit permits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The detained customs official was offered 1.7 million meticais (around&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609140054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has arrested two Zimbabwean truck drivers and a Mozambican customs officer while they were attempting to steal 800,000 liters of fuel using forged documents. The case follows an investigation into a similar crime last May, when approximately 400,000 liters of diesel bound for central province Manica were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244314,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,4305,8083,6646,7570,49808,4704,682,257,55429,254,4605],"class_list":["post-244313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-attempt","tag-caught","tag-fuel","tag-liters","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-redhanded","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steal"],"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\/244313","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=244313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}