{"id":46382,"date":"2016-04-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/46382\/hawks-swoop-onto-local-couple\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:49:08","slug":"hawks-swoop-onto-local-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/13\/hawks-swoop-onto-local-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks swoop onto local couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Matanya Gordon Monye and his wife, Sepati Pearl Mothlabane&#8217;s assets were frozen, including their bank accounts and investments.<\/p>\n<p>The couple listened in shock as a KPMG representative explained to them what the civil court judgement, obtained against them for suspected tender fraud, entailed.<\/p>\n<p>Their assets will remain frozen pending the outcome of criminal investigations against them, and other family members, who haven&#8217;t been identified yet.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-46382 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/13\/hawks-swoop-onto-local-couple\/attachment\/portrait1_62181\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/04\/portrait1_62181-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/04\/portrait1_62181-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/04\/portrait1_62181-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/04\/portrait1_62181.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46384'>\n\t\t\t\tA portrait of Matanya Gordon Monye and his wife, Sepati Pearl Mothlabane, taken during the Thursday raid of the Aerorand home by the Limpopo Hawks Asset Forfeiture Unit.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limpopo Hawks Asset Forfeiture Unit swooped onto an unsuspecting Aerorand couple, suspected of tender fraud at the Department of Health and Social Welfare, as well as a Limpopo Nursing College, early on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[4139,1348,4140],"class_list":["post-46382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-hawks","tag-illegal","tag-limpopo"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["HAWKS","illegal","Limpopo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}