{"id":36820,"date":"2015-08-19T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36820"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:08:18","slug":"lesotho-ex-commissioner-of-refugees-guilty-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/lesotho-ex-commissioner-of-refugees-guilty-of-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Ex-commissioner of refugees guilty of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tefo Tefo<\/p>\n<p>FORMER Commissioner of Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs Francis Tlhopheho Sefali will spend 10 years behind bars if he fails to pay a M20 000 fine imposed by the Maseru Magistrate\u2019s Court on Tuesday this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sefali was slapped with the hefty sentence after being convicted of fraudulently facilitating the acquisition of a Lesotho passport for Ethiopian Eyob Asemie in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He first appeared before the Maseru Magistrate\u2019s Court on 6 March 2013 accused of writing in the Ministry of Home Affairs records that Asemie had come to Lesotho in 2003, when he had arrived in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/lestimes.com\/ex-commissioner-of-refugees-guilty-of-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lestimes.com\/ex-commissioner-of-refugees-guilty-of-fraud\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tefo Tefo FORMER Commissioner of Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs Francis Tlhopheho Sefali will spend 10 years behind bars if he fails to pay a M20 000 fine imposed by the Maseru Magistrate\u2019s Court on Tuesday this week. Sefali was slapped with the hefty sentence after being convicted of fraudulently facilitating the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-lesotho-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-396","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-nationalite-et-des-refugies","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36821,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions\/36821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}