{"id":15244,"date":"2025-11-14T07:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-police-to-refer-businesspersons-lesser-sentence-plea-deal-for-review\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:32","slug":"sa-police-to-refer-businesspersons-lesser-sentence-plea-deal-for-review","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-police-to-refer-businesspersons-lesser-sentence-plea-deal-for-review\/","title":{"rendered":"SA police to refer businessperson\u2019s lesser sentence plea deal for review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This is regarding the reasons for entering into a plea agreement for a lesser sentence for controversial businessperson, Stuart Scharnick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Addressing the media in Durban on Thursday afternoon, Acting Deputy Provincial Commissioner for Crime Detection Anthony Gopaul says Scharnick was involved in cases, which include carjackings and motor vehicle theft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m presenting to you 18 such dockets, when you open each docket, it was syndicated in most of these dockets, Mr Stuart had sold. People who had possession of the cars, in some instances, he was in possession of the cars, but in the majority of cases, he sold these cars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15245,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-15244","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Police in the South African (SA) province of KwaZulu-Natal say they are preparing two dockets for referral to the Provincial Director of Public Prosecutions and the Magistrates Commission","published_date":"2025-11-14 00:00:00","news_description":"Police in the South African (SA) province of KwaZulu-Natal say they are preparing two dockets for referral to the Provincial Director of Public Prosecutions and the Magistrates Commission","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19566,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15244\/revisions\/19566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}