Food meant for the poor lost to fraud Three arrested for defrauding World Food Programme By TimesLIVE - 05 May 2021 Three people have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the World Food Programme. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/BELCHONOK The Johannesburg Hawks’ serious commercial crime investigation team has arrested three people for allegedly defrauding more than R5m worth of foodstuffs from the World Food Programme (WFP). The food had been donated by the US Agency for International Development (USAid) to the WFP for humanitarian relief. The supplies, including tons of refined vegetable oil and yellow split peas, were meant for a relief operation in Malawi.