{"id":19784,"date":"2018-10-25T11:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19784"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:25:51","slug":"south-africa-bank-heist-can-vbs-mutual-bank-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19784","title":{"rendered":"South Africa bank heist: Can VBS Mutual Bank be saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68.9665871122\">\n<p>It has been called the biggest bank fraud in the South African history.<\/p>\n<p>More than $130m was stolen from VBS Mutual Bank, leading to its collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In his maiden budget speech, the local media reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/south-africa.html\">South Africa<\/a>&#8216;s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has suggested the bank can be saved.<\/p>\n<p>But if it isn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s the poor who&#8217;ll end up paying the ultimate price.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Fahmida Miller from Limpopo province, South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been called the biggest bank fraud in the South African history. More than $130m was stolen from VBS Mutual Bank, leading to its collapse. In his maiden budget speech, the local media reported, South Africa&#8217;s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has suggested the bank can be saved. But if it isn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s the poor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}