{"id":20680,"date":"2022-05-28T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud"},"modified":"2022-05-28T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:55:56","slug":"veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison term of six years when he was sentenced in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n

Acting judge Alvin Simpson sentenced former Ondangwa-based lawyer Arumugam Thambapilai (77) to 10 years’ imprisonment, of which four years were suspended for a period of five years, on four counts of fraud, charges of forgery and uttering, and a count of attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice.<\/p>\n

Three former clients of Thambapilai’s law firm were also sentenced by Simpson in connection with their involvement in fraudulent claims which were submitted to the MVA Fund through the law firm from June 2000 to September 2005. Linda Shipalanga and Festus Shindume were both sentenced to an effective prison term of four years.<\/p>\n

A former police officer, Onesmus Sheehama, who fabricated a road accident report which was used in support of a fraudulent MVA Fund claim of N$2,8 million, was sentenced to pay a fine of N$40 000 or serve a jail term of four years.<\/p>\n

Thambapilai and his co-accused were acquitted on all charges in December 2015, more than five years after their trial started in the High Court. The state appealed against that verdict, and in October last year the Supreme Court overturned the acquittals, replaced it with convictions and referred the matter back to the High Court for sentencing. Thambapilai was first arrested and charged in December 2005. More in our next edition.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Namibia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison term of six years when he was sentenced in the Windhoek High Court on Friday. Acting judge Alvin Simpson sentenced former Ondangwa-based lawyer Arumugam Thambapilai (77) to 10 years’ imprisonment, of which four years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-20680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"\nVeteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-28T16:48:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-28T16:55:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"524\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-28T16:48:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-28T16:55:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\"},\"wordCount\":262,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\",\"name\":\"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud - Namibia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-28T16:48:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-28T16:55:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison t ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":524,\"caption\":\"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\",\"name\":\"Namibia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud - Namibia","description":"A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison t ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud","og_description":"A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison t ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud","og_site_name":"Namibia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-05-28T16:48:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-05-28T16:55:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":524,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud","datePublished":"2022-05-28T16:48:58+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-28T16:55:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud"},"wordCount":262,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg","keywords":["africa press","Africa Press-Namibia","namibia"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud","name":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud - Namibia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-28T16:48:58+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-28T16:55:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"A veteran lawyer found guilty of defrauding the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund of Namibia received an effective prison t ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14-6292540556033.jpg","width":720,"height":524,"caption":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/veteran-lawyer-jailed-over-mva-fund-fraud#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Veteran lawyer jailed over MVA Fund fraud"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/","name":"Namibia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}