{"id":3840,"date":"2013-02-04T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2013-02-04T07:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T07:20:01","slug":"counterfeit-goods-gang-arrested-near-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"Counterfeit goods gang arrested near Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/counterfeit-goods-2e-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3841\" title=\"counterfeit-goods-2e-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/counterfeit-goods-2e-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/counterfeit-goods-2e-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/counterfeit-goods-2e-photo.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An alleged kingpin operating in counterfeit goods in the West Rand was arrested in Westonaria on Saturday morning, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Police arrested 15 suspects and recovered goods with a street value of R10 million in the early hours of Saturday morning,&#8221; spokeswoman Captain Julia Claassen said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the arrest followed a crime intelligence operation by the police in the Bekkersdal informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Seven properties were searched and police recovered illicit cigarettes and a range of counterfeit goods ranging from designer clothes, bags and sunglasses. Police also seized cash to the value of over R160,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man, 34, and his 24-year-old wife were amongst those arrested and were charged under the tobacco controls act and the Counterfeit Goods Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirteen other men were arrested and charged under the illegal immigrants act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All 15 are Mozambican and are expected to appear in court soon, said Claassen. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged kingpin operating in counterfeit goods in the West Rand was arrested in Westonaria on Saturday morning, Gauteng police said. &#8220;Police arrested 15 suspects and recovered goods with a street value of R10 million in the early hours of Saturday morning,&#8221; spokeswoman Captain Julia Claassen said. She said the arrest followed a crime intelligence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Counterfeit goods gang arrested near Johannesburg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1253,2498,2499,239,12250],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arrest","tag-counterfeit-goods","tag-gang","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/counterfeit-goods-2e-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}