{"id":134028,"date":"2015-08-04T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=134028"},"modified":"2015-08-04T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T10:11:13","slug":"computer-system-analyst-extortion-case-back-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/134028-computer-system-analyst-extortion-case-back-in-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer system analyst extortion case back in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0The matter against two men who allegedly tried to extort $1m from investment holding company Telesure was postponed in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was postponed to September 8 for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The two accused, Ghanaian businessman Henry Kofi Panti, 49, and self-employed computer system analyst, Dalton Lentswe Mononyane, 38, were out on bail of R20 000 and R5 000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They allegedly gained access to Telesure&#8217;s payroll system, stole its employees&#8217; personal information, and then demanded $1m to return it.<\/p>\n<p>During their bail application, the two men indicated they intended to plead not guilty to the charges of attempted extortion and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>They maintained they had never met prior to being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The company owns insurance brands including Auto &amp; General, Budget, DialDirect and First for Women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two men who allegedly tried to extort $1m from investment holding company Telesure will appear in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They last appeared on June 30, where the matter was postponed for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian businessman Henry Kofi Panti, 49, and self-employed computer system analyst, Dalton Lentswe Mononyane, 38, are out on bail of R20 000 and R5 000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They allegedly gained access to Telesure&#8217;s payroll system, stole its employees&#8217; personal information, and then demanded $1m to return it.<\/p>\n<p>During their bail application, the two indicated they intended to plead not guilty to charges of attempted extortion and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>They maintained they had never met prior to being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The company owns insurance brands including Auto &amp; General, Budget, DialDirect and First for Women.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Telesure-extortion-case-continues-20150804\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on crime<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/133788-load-shedding-worse-than-crime-for-sa-business.html\">Load shedding worse than crime for SA business<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/131170-robocrime-what-happens-if-an-intelligent-robot-kills-someone.html\">Robocrime \u2013 what happens if an intelligent robot kills someone?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men who allegedly tried to extort $1m from investment holding company Telesure will appear in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341004,"featured_media":86269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,9695,31336],"class_list":["post-134028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-crime","tag-telesure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}