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Jan 25, 2021 03:25:44 PM Six Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) Members of Parliament pleaded not guilty to fraud related charges in the Suva Magistrates Court today. Ratu Suliano Matanitobua, Salote Radrodro, Simione Rasova, Nikolau Nawaikula, Peceli Vosanibola and Adi Litia Qionibaravi pleaded not guilty to one count each of False Information to Public Servant and Obtaining Financial Advantage. The counsel for former government MP Vijendra Prakash informed the court that he needed more time to discuss plea with his client. The Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) charged the seven MPs last December for allegedly breaching the Parliamentary Remunerations Act of 2014 by claiming a total of $186,649.20 FJD in allowances, which they were not eligible to receive.
Arieta Vakasukawaqa
15 January, 2021, 2:00 am
A landowner appeared before the Nausori Magistrates Court charged by the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption with two counts of general dishonesty obtaining a gain.
Mosese Ranavue denied demanding goodwill payments of $3600 on two separate occasions under the pretence the payment would guarantee the leasing of land to two individuals when the decision did not rest with him but the iTaukei Land Trust Board.
The defence counsel in the case sought time to consider their stance on some legal issues.
The case has been adjourned to February 15, with his bail extended.
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Wanshika Kumar
17 December, 2020, 2:00 am
Two former postmistresses at Post Fiji Ltd pleaded not guilty in the Suva Magistrates Court on Monday to charges of causing losses.
Sereseini Seru and Ane Mauleko were charged by the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) for causing losses while working at the Nabua and Nakasi post offices in 2018.
They both denied falsifying details on applications for electronic money order and applications to receive money order, which allowed false system payments to be made between them to cover up losses they had incurred.
Ms Mauleko further denied falsifying a remittance between post offices form amounting to $21,000 while Ms Seru denied falsifying four office summary reports.
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In Fiji, bomb attack claims against Indo-Fijian attorney-general stoke racial tensions Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fiji’s attorney general. Photo: AFP
An investigation into Fiji s attorney general over a murder case that went cold has brought the divisions between the country s ethnic Indian residents and indigenous population back into the spotlight.
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, one of the South Pacific s most powerful men, is being investigated in connection with fatal twin bomb attacks that happened in the capital of Suva in the aftermath of the 1987 military coup that deposed the first government formed by the Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party (NFP). A passerby died in the first attack and several people were injured.