{"id":10981,"date":"2012-06-01T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/zambia-ex-presidents-son-arrested-for-corruption\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T08:30:46","slug":"zambia-ex-presidents-son-arrested-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zambia-ex-presidents-son-arrested-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia ex-president&#8217;s son arrested for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LUSAKA, June 1<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Zambia&#8217;s police have arrested the<br \/>\nson of former President Rupiah Banda on suspicion of receiving<br \/>\nbribes from an Italian construction company, a police<br \/>\nspokeswoman said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lawyer for Andrew Banda said the arrest is a politically<br \/>\nmotivated move from current President Michael Sata, who was<br \/>\nelected in September with pledges to crack down on shady deals<br \/>\nin Africa&#8217;s top copper.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andrew Banda has been formally arrested and charged for<br \/>\ncorrupt practices and being in possession of property suspected<br \/>\nto be proceeds of crime,&#8221; police spokeswoman Namukolo Kasumpa<br \/>\nsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Sakwiba Sikota told Reuters: &#8220;It was clear from the<br \/>\nstart that this is case of political persecution. The evidence<br \/>\nthat will come out in court will vindicate my client&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a separate case last month, a court convicted a minister<br \/>\nin the former government of illegally siphoning off 2.1 billion<br \/>\nkwacha ($400,000) and burying the cash on his farm.<br \/>\n{ID:nL5E8GO3Z3]\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Chris Mfula; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUSAKA, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Zambia&#8217;s police have arrested the son of former President Rupiah Banda on suspicion of receiving bribes from an Italian construction company, a police spokeswoman said on Friday. The lawyer for Andrew Banda said the arrest is a politically motivated move from current President Michael Sata, who was elected in September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}