{"id":368843,"date":"2025-01-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=368843"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:16:17","slug":"woman-who-fled-with-rental-vehicle-to-be-extradited-to-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=368843","title":{"rendered":"Woman who fled with rental vehicle to be extradited to Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 38-YEAR-OLD Namibian woman, identified as Chante Coetzee, who fled the country with a South African national in a rented vehicle, is set to be officially handed over to the Namibian police after being arrested in Zambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is alleged that between 24 June and 2 July 2024, Coetzee (fugitive), aged 38, and a South African female national hired a motor vehicle from a car rental in the Zambezi Region to tour Namibia. However, they allegedly managed to, without the vehicle\u2019s owner&#8217;s consent, travel into Zambia through ungazetted entry points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicle owner subsequently registered a criminal case, Katima Mulilo CR 28.07.2024, and Coetzee has been wanted on two criminal counts: theft of a motor vehicle and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act of Namibia. On 18 October 2024, Coetzee was arrested in Zambia, where the court ruled her extraditable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coetzee will be extradited from the Republic of Zambia to the Republic of Namibia. 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