{"id":6612,"date":"2024-12-09T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:45:36","slug":"phelekezela-mphoko-the-former-vice-president-of-zimbabwe-and-an-ally-of-robert-mugabe-has-died-at-84-after-a-prolonged-attempt-to-evade-a-corruption-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6612","title":{"rendered":"Phelekezela Mphoko, the former Vice President of Zimbabwe and an ally of Robert Mugabe, has died at 84 after a prolonged attempt to evade a corruption investigation."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The search for Mphoko had been underway since he failed to appear for questioning by authorities in 2019 regarding allegations of criminal abuse of office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charges stemmed from Mphoko&#8217;s purported intervention in the case of two high ranking Zimbabwe National Road Administration officials who were accused of defrauding the organization of 1.3 million US dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mphoko\u2019s escape left the country in shook, especially given his high position in the Zimbabwean government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been suspected of supporting Grace Mugabe\u2019s bid for the presidency over that of his former colleague, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the current president of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath of his disappearance, Mphoko had been declared a fugitive of justice, with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers hunting for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details to follow<br>https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DaT8fqZYshj5cFaRrhhYt8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Mphoko had been underway since he failed to appear for questioning by authorities in 2019 regarding allegations of criminal abuse of office. The charges stemmed from Mphoko&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}