{"id":7479,"date":"2013-07-20T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2013-07-20T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:50:44","slug":"two-s-african-state-officials-arrested-for-taking-money-for-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7479","title":{"rendered":"Two S. African state officials arrested for taking money for IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smart-card_ID.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7480\" alt=\"smart-card_ID\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smart-card_ID-300x127.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smart-card_ID-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smart-card_ID.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two home affairs officials were arrested for theft in Pretoria on Friday, the Hawks said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The suspects were part of the mobile unit tasked with assisting school pupils to get IDs,&#8221; said Captain Paul Ramaloko.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Hawks the officials pocketed the R140 paid for identity documents, but did not process the applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Home affairs then received complaints, looked on its system, and discovered the applicants&#8217; information was not there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The matter was brought to us in June by the department and we started investigating. More arrests are expected,&#8221; said Ramaloko.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They two were expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Friday on theft charges. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two home affairs officials were arrested for theft in Pretoria on Friday, the Hawks said. &#8220;The suspects were part of the mobile unit tasked with assisting school pupils to get IDs,&#8221; said Captain Paul Ramaloko. According to the Hawks the officials pocketed the R140 paid for identity documents, but did not process the applications. Home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two S. African state officials arrested for taking money for IDs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[219,34,4076],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-home-affairs"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smart-card_ID.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","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=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}