{"id":2441,"date":"2014-10-06T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2014-10-06T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:37:58","slug":"south-africa-seizes-another-5-7m-nigerias-arms-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"South Africa seizes another $5.7m Nigeria\u2019s arms deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2442\" alt=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South African authorities have seized\u00a0another US$5.7 million arms money from Nigeria, just\u00a0three weeks after the\u00a0$9.3 million cash transported by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase, South Africa-based City Express reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As with the first deal, South Africa\u2019s Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority seized the $5.7 million (about N952 million) for allegedly being the proceeds of illegal transactions, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>The news came more than two weeks after two Nigerians and an Israeli national were arrested in South Africa after they attempted to smuggle US$9.3 million apparently meant for buying arms for the Nigerian intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second multimillion-rand arms deal between the two countries in the past month that has resulted in the money being frozen in South African banks.<\/p>\n<p>The money was frozen in both cases for allegedly being the proceeds of illegal transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African authorities have seized\u00a0another US$5.7 million arms money from Nigeria, just\u00a0three weeks after the\u00a0$9.3 million cash transported by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase, South Africa-based City Express reported Monday. As with the first deal, South Africa\u2019s Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority seized the $5.7 million (about N952 million) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Dn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","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=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}