{"id":1952,"date":"2014-09-19T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2014-09-19T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:39:28","slug":"9-3m-scandal-south-africa-insists-on-criminal-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"$9.3m scandal: South Africa insists on criminal probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1953\" alt=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/money.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are strong indications that efforts of the Federal Government to ensure amicable settlement of issues surrounding the $9.3m seized by South Africa have failed.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s National Prosecuting Authority, in an email to Punch\u201ds correspondent in Abuja on Thursday, said that the matter was still under criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports on Wednesday that $9.3m, which was seized from two Nigerians and an Israeli in Johannesburg, was meant for procurement of arms for intelligence agencies in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>It was also reported that the Federal Government was aware of the move to procure arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are strong indications that efforts of the Federal Government to ensure amicable settlement of issues surrounding the $9.3m seized by South Africa have failed. South Africa\u2019s National Prosecuting Authority, in an email to Punch\u201ds correspondent in Abuja on Thursday, said that the matter was still under criminal investigations. There were reports on Wednesday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/money.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}