{"id":2866,"date":"2018-03-19T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2018-03-19T19:25:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:25:53","slug":"sa-court-grounds-gupta-private-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"SA court grounds Gupta private jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A High Court in Johannesburg has ordered that a private jet belonging to the controversial Gupta family be grounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Gupta family have a lease agreement with a Canadian credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), for a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">EDC brought the application against the Guptas in a dispute on the lease agreement in a UK court relating to the jet valued at US $41m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The request by EDC was for the court in South Africa to ground the plane until a final order was made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Gupta family have been accused of abusing their close relationship to former president Jacob Zuma in which they allegedly had undue influence over government officials for contracts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have always maintained their innocence, Zuma also denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monday\u2019s\u00a0court order said the plane, registered as ZS-OAK, must be parked at Lanseria airport north of Johannesburg and its tracking system be switched off.<strong><em>\/BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court in Johannesburg has ordered that a private jet belonging to the controversial Gupta family be grounded. The Gupta family have a lease agreement with a Canadian credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), for a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft. EDC brought the application against the Guptas in a dispute on the lease agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}