{"id":47629,"date":"2023-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=a8700ba49e0f38f310f7496e2dcd5112"},"modified":"2023-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:00:00","slug":"npa-official-convicted-for-accessing-and-disclosing-classified-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/npa-official-convicted-for-accessing-and-disclosing-classified-data\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA official convicted for accessing and disclosing classified data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>PRETORIA \u2013 The Pretoria Magistrates\u2019 Court convicted Jacobeth Lepinka (52), the National Prosecuting Authority Assistant Director and her son, Kedifentse (28) on 17 February 2023 for charges relating to accessing top secret information.<\/P><P><\/P><P>In 2014, NPA discovered that Lepinka took the laptop with classified information to her place of residence without authorisation. A case of theft was registered and the incident reported to the Hawks\u2019 Head Office based Serious Corruption Investigation team for further handling. The investigation commenced and led the team to the laptop that was utilised by Lepinka\u2019s son who claimed to own the device.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Subsequent to a lengthy investigation, the accused were summoned to court where they were tried. Jacobeth was found guilty on charges of fraud, unauthorised access to information and unauthorised disclosure of information whereas Kedifentse was convicted for unauthorised access to information. The accused will be sentenced on 16 May 2023.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Police Service<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA \u2013 The Pretoria Magistrates\u2019 Court convicted Jacobeth Lepinka (52), the National Prosecuting Authority Assistant Director and her son, Kedifentse (28) on 17 February 2023 for charges relating to accessing top secret information.In 2014, NPA dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NPA official convicted for accessing and disclosing classified data - Times South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/npa-official-convicted-for-accessing-and-disclosing-classified-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPA official convicted for accessing and disclosing classified data - 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