{"id":787,"date":"2017-11-14T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T22:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-11-14T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T22:24:30","slug":"police-pursue-ngos-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Police pursue NGOs for Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Council has reported three Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to the Zambia Police for suspected fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed the development in a statement that the Zambia Police Service has finally received a formal report from the British Council on the suspected fraud by one of the UK Aid funded projects which is the Zambia Accountability Project (ZAP).<\/p>\n<p>Katongo said the report was made on the 09th November, 2017 to the Zambia Police Anti Fraud Unit.<\/p>\n<p>She explains that the revelation follows an internal investigation carried out by the British Council.<\/p>\n<p>Katongo said the Police has since opened an inquiry file in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>ZAP consists of NGOs among them; Zambia Women\u2019s Lobby Group, the Southern African Centre for e Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD), Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP), Young African Leaders Initiative \u2013 Zambia (YALI) and Transparency International Zambia (TIZ).<\/p>\n<p>According to the audit report the NGOs had embezzled about US$3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Council has reported three Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to the Zambia Police for suspected fraud. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed the development in a statement that the Zambia Police Service has finally received a formal report from the British Council on the suspected fraud by one of the UK Aid funded projects which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}