{"id":10836,"date":"2013-10-04T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2013-10-04T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:27:14","slug":"former-rugby-player-jailed-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10836","title":{"rendered":"Former rugby player jailed for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scalesofjustice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2432\" alt=\"scalesofjustice\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scalesofjustice-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scalesofjustice-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scalesofjustice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A rugby player for the former Northern-Transvaal rugby team, Paul Botes, was on Thursday sentenced in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria to serve 10 years in jail for fraud, Beeld reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Botes, 51, reached a guilty plea agreement with the State on 12 charges of theft and one of money laundering after stealing about R19.5 million from investors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stole the money between 1993 and 2012 while he worked as a broker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was first arrested in 2012 at his home in Pretoria, after an investor registered a complaint with the serious economic offences unit of police unit the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Botes admitted to having received money from investors, some of whom were elderly, which he then used to fund his own lifestyle. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rugby player for the former Northern-Transvaal rugby team, Paul Botes, was on Thursday sentenced in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria to serve 10 years in jail for fraud, Beeld reported. Botes, 51, reached a guilty plea agreement with the State on 12 charges of theft and one of money laundering after stealing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Former rugby player jailed for fraud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6712,1692,1268,6711,1190],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-broker","tag-courts","tag-fraud","tag-paul-botes","tag-rugby"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scalesofjustice.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}