{"id":82635,"date":"2016-11-22T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/statement-on-stephen-grootes-allegation-that-ajay-gupta-lied\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:23:06","slug":"statement-on-stephen-grootes-allegation-that-ajay-gupta-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/statement-on-stephen-grootes-allegation-that-ajay-gupta-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Stephen Grootes\u2019 allegation that \u201cAjay Gupta Lied\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/statement-on-stephen-grootes-allegation-that-ajay-gupta-lied?lang=en\">Statement on Stephen Grootes\u2019 allegation that \u201cAjay Gupta Lied\u201d<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>It has come to our attention that Stephen Grootes reported on 21st November 2016 that &ldquo;Ajay Gupta lied&rdquo; pursuant to an interview conducted on 16th February 2016.<\/p>\n<p> Let it be recorded that Grootes&rsquo;s allegation is noted but categorically denied. The rights of Ajay Gupta are reserved and appropriate steps will be taken against Grootes in the appropriate forum.<\/p>\n<p>Grootes is also invited to substantiate his false, defamatory claim.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of The Gupta family.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/f528abc7e4789d9\/200\/70\" alt=\"The Gupta family\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/statement-on-stephen-grootes-allegation-that-ajay-gupta-lied?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement on Stephen Grootes\u2019 allegation that \u201cAjay Gupta Lied\u201d: It has come to our attention that Stephen Grootes reported on 21st November 2016 that &ldquo;Ajay Gupta lied&rdquo; pursuant to an interview conducted on 16th February 2016. Let it be recorded that Grootes&rsquo;s allegation is noted but categorically denied. The rights of Ajay Gupta are reserved [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[20657,22047,22046,12530,8320,2272,11505],"class_list":{"0":"post-82635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-ajay","8":"tag-allegation","9":"tag-grootes","10":"tag-gupta","11":"tag-lied","12":"tag-statement","13":"tag-stephen","14":"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\/82635","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=82635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}