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2017: 'Last year, the young golfer TRISTAN LEVESTAM was given such a bloody buturaki by Qiliho for going out with his daughter that  Levestam ended up in hospital; family physically threatened not to go to FijiLEAKS'

3/2/2023

 

SIX YEARS later, the Levestam family confirm Fijileaks story and now want to file Police Complaint against the suspended COMPOL SITIVENI QILIHO.
*We had decided not to write a follow up story because the family were absolutely terrified of Qiliho and his enforcer henchmen and hoodlums. But now he has been suspended, they want JUSTICE

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*1 February 2023 to Fijileaks Founding Editor in Chief:

"Bula Vinaka, Am planning on pursuing my son's case against former COMPOL, what you wrote are facts, of the incident.
It's time to rock the boat on social media help please. Vinaka."


*I was at home the day Giliho [Qiliho] brought Tristan home all beaten up, we were in Nadi then. Giliho [Qiliho] should have taken my son to the Nadi hospital, but instead brought him home. I guess to avoid questions and statements at the hospital. My self and my wife then took Tristan to Dr Zens medical." 

From Fijileaks Archive, 13 June 2017

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"The soldiers cut Singh's hair, burnt it with cigarettes and disappeared into the darkness, taking Singh's shoes with them and leaving him alone in the dark in the forested hill."

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The car was then driven to Colo-i-Suva where Singh was blindfolded by putting pads on both eyes before a strip of cloth was tied around his head in a blind-fold and a balaclava pulled securely over his head and tied around his neck. Singh was then walked into the woodland where his hands were tied behind him after which he was made to sit down and another rope then tied around his feet and slung around his neck. He said one of the soldiers sat behind him holding a noose around his head and keeping him pulled backwards.

Singh was told not to make any sound or try to escape. Afterwards he was repeatedly punched and kicked violently in the head, face and body and interrogated whilst he remained defencelessly bound. His captivity lasted some 11 hours.

Towards night fall, the five soldiers either jointly or severally put on dark balaclavas and unbound Singh. He was then assaulted violently on the head and face from both sides for a prolonged period lasting some 10 minutes and methodically smashed up both his hands with a metal pipe furnished with a wooden handle. Afterwards, the soldiers cut Singh's hair, burnt it with cigarettes and disappeared into the darkness, taking Singh's shoes with them and leaving him alone in the dark in the forested hill.

As a result of this abduction and torture Singh was hospitalised for three weeks at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva and he suffered the following injuries: (a) Facial bruising around the left eye and orbit with sub-conjunctival haemorrhage;(b) Rope burns around both wrists;(c) Fracture of right radial styloid;(d) Compound fracture of the left fifth finger; (e) Fracture of base of fifth meta-carpal;(f) Abrasions of both hands;(g) Superficial burns of left shoulder and right forearm consistent with cigarette burns;(h) Contusions of anterior chest wall; and (i) Decreased sensation of left hand due to neuropraxia (bruising) of radial nerve from the wrist-rope. The brutal soldiers were led by SOTIA PONJIASI.

​Bizarrely, instead of putting the torturers on trial, Singh and six others had been charged in the Magistrates' Court of Suva on two counts of (1) having burnt a copy of the [racist 1990] Constitution of the Republic of Fiji on 18th October 1990 with seditious intention contrary to section 65(1)(iv) and 66(1)(a) of the Penal Code and (2) having taken part in an unlawful assembly on the same day contrary to section 86 and 87 of the Penal Code.

“Every time we shrug when we hear of another midnight raid, the cries of terrorized women and children, then somewhere in Fiji another potential [Klaus] Barbie [The Nazi Butcher of Lyon in France] is getting a start in life,” said the former Methodist communications secretary in 1987, the Reverend Akuila Yabaki

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“Every time we shrug when we hear of another midnight raid, the cries of terrorized women and children, then somewhere in Fiji another potential [Klaus] Barbie [The Nazi Butcher of Lyon in France] is getting a start in life,” said the former Methodist communications secretary in 1987, the Reverend Akuila Yabaki, now head of the Citizens Constitutional Forum. He was speaking out against the reign of terror and torture practised mostly against the Indo-Fijian community by Sitiveni Rabuka, his military henchmen, prominent chiefs, and the dreaded and racist Fijian taukei foot soldiers following the 1987 coups.

Now, nearly twenty years later, we are beginning to hear the first ripples of ‘torture tactics’ by the military against the pro-democracy supporters. But let us hope and pray that Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s military will not go down the road that Mr Rabuka took his troops, chiefs, and taukeists like Apisai Tora to achieve his objective of ‘Fiji for the taukei Fijians’.

The first casualty was the media when Mr Rabuka launched his coup on 14 May 1987. In an editorial on 15 May, the old Fiji Sun asked: “What right has a third-ranking officer to attack the scared institutions of Parliament? To presume he knows how best this country shall be governed for the good of all? The answer is: NONE. The people must decide their own future: not self-promoting dictators and not a Council appointed by and presided over by Lieutenant-Colonel Rabuka. But was he encouraged by others to act? And if so, who were they?”

We now know who they were, and many of those are still around, in positions of influence and authority. Most of them were prominent paramount chiefs, civil servants, church leaders, lawyers, magistrates, judges, and fallen politicians. They were indigenous Fijians, some of whom, and their offspring, are today hiding from the military in a great game of hide and seek following the 5 December coup. The former governor-general and Mr Rabuka’s paramount chief Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, made it easier for Mr Rabuka to crush civil disobedience by warning that the civilian-cum military regime would not hesitate to use emergency powers it had under martial law.

On 15 May 1987, shortly after the Fiji Sun editorial, the Ministry of Information directed the Fiji Times and Fiji Sun to cease publication. The RFMF occupied Radio Fiji. The same day armed soldiers’ ejected staff of both the two newspapers from their offices, and foreign journalists were questioned by the RFMF. In a sickening spectacle, the raid on the Times office was led by one of its own reporters and army reservist E.T. Volavola in full combat gear carrying a rifle and backed up by a squad of troops.

Mr Rabuka announced a Council of Ministers (COM), which was dominated by ex-Alliance Party Ministers (including Ratu Mara who had lost the election to Dr Timoci Bavadra). Mr Rabuka said his military regime was in full control and the people had accepted the coup, and called on the international community to recognize his regime. He said he had abrogated the Constitution and the regime would govern Fiji by decree. He brushed aside the demands of the Council of Churches “in the name of Christianity” to release the MPs he had kidnapped and was holding as hostages, and “surrender to the sovereign authority of the land”, and restore “our duly elected government”.

He instead moved into deposed Prime Minister Dr Bavadra’s office. But when the Fiji Sun questioned Mr Rabuka’s right to occupy high office, he threw the general manager and one of the directors, who was also President of the Fiji Law Society, in the same prison cell as that occupied by Dr Bavadra. The Sun was singled out for severe maltreatment. Sadly, most of the harassment and intimidation was carried out against the Indo-Fijian journalists, for after all, Mr Rabuka had executed the coup to give Fijians the control of Fiji.

Some Fijian journalists, therefore, switched sides, and became Mr Rabuka’s propagandists, reporting on their Indo-Fijian colleagues and their families. In the end, the Fiji Times agreed to operate under partial military censorship, while the old Fiji Sun was forced to cease operations in the country after it published allegations that Mr Rabuka had bought a house in Suva favoured by wealthy Indo-Fijians and expatriates, on a 100% mortgage from a prominent Alliance politician. In the end, some of Fiji’s best Indo-Fijian journalists were forced to emigrate or seek political asylum abroad. Some of us were not only on Mr Rabuka’s hit list but even had our passports confiscated, ending up overnight from being citizens to wandering international refugees.

The next group that Mr Rabuka and his cronies targeted were his political opponents. Shortly before the coup the taukeists firebombed the law offices of Jai Ram Reddy, now an International Criminal Court judge. The late Sir Vijay Singh was detained and his passport seized, prompting him to ask: “What kind of normalcy is [Ganilau] thinking about when things like this happen.”

Dr Bavadra’s spokesman and current Suva lawyer Richard Naidu was arrested and detained on different occasions. He was chased and beaten up by Taukeists, and finally had his Fiji nationality revoked, and ordered to leave the country for New Zealand. Another legal adviser of Dr Bavadra, John Cameron, had his work permit withdrawn after he filed civil suit against dissolution of Parliament, and had also filed claim with the Supreme Court on behalf of a client harassed by the RFMF, seeking a declaration that State of Emergency and 1987 Emergency Regulations were unconstitutional.

Among judges arrested included Justices Kishore Govind and Rooney, including Chief Magistrate Howard Morrison. Even the Police Commissioner, an Indo-Fijian Pramesh Raman, whose job Mr Rabuka had applied a week before the coup, was taken into custody. Several Indo-Fijian lawyers and academics were also taken into custody, mostly on legal advice of some Fijian lawyers.

Although the vast majority of victims were Indo-Fijians, some prominent Fijians like Amelia Rokotuivanua and Dr Steven Ratuva came in for rough treatment. The two were “lectured” by Lieutenant Pio Wong on how to be “true Fijians” and Dr Ratuva had spells in detention, and at one point the military allegedly tried to poison him with the prepared food it had brought to his house. In 1986 he had claimed in a paper that the RFMF’s only function lay in internal repression or as a conduit for chiefly advancement. He had also suggested that “intermarriages between the sons and daughters of chiefs (including the chiefly officers in the army) helps to consolidate the chiefly comprador clique which ensures the perpetuation of nepotism and inequality in Fijian society”.

On 25 September Mr Rabuka carried out his second coup. Violence and intimidation was encouraged, and a group of escaped prisoners were escorted by the military to march to the Government House to demand pardons. When the GCC refused to recognise Mr Rabuka as president, he declared Fiji a republic, declared himself the head of state and no longer recognised the GCC as such. However, on 5 December he agreed to hand over power to the new President Ratu Penaia and the Prime Minister Ratu Mara. Mr Rabuka took charge of Home Affairs, the CJ returned to the bench, Sailosi Kepa was recalled as High Commissioner from London to take over as Minister for Justice and A-G, and Berenado Vunibobo became Minister of Trade and Commerce. Dr Bavadra retorted: “It is a military government in a civilian cloak.”

The international community resumed trade and diplomatic links with Fiji. Australia conferred Mr Rabuka legitimacy by announcing that it was recognizing Fiji as a state rather than the government of Fiji. Ratu Penaia granted Mr Rabuka and his close circle of oppressors, questionable amnesty, and the Fijians introduced apartheid against the Indo-Fijians. Ratu Penaia also formally signed new Internal Security Decree, giving army power to shoot to kill anyone found with illegal arms that resisted arrests.

As Minister for Internal Security, Mr Rabuka had extraordinary range of powers, which violated international standards of human rights, including the detention of any person for two years; order restriction of movement, freedom of expression, employment, residence or activity; prohibit the printing, publication, sale, issue, circulation or possession of any written material, and prohibit its communication through word of mouth etc.

And yet Mr Rabuka was free to publish his book “No Other Way”. But no criticism of his book was permitted, and one USP Indo-Fijian lecturer who dared to criticise it, was detained and severely beaten up. My own critical counter-book Fiji: Coups in Paradise was banished from the bookshelves of Fiji. As Mr Rabuka plunged the economy into a decline, he was offered $50,000 from an Australian publishing company as a retainer for his book and a TV documentary. The RFMF, commenting on brief detentions and harassment said, “Due to the current conditions everyone is suspect until proven innocent”. Mr Rabuka went on to become the Prime Minister and chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs on the bandwagon of nationalist and racist ideology, an ideology which Commodore Bainimarama claims he wants to stamp out once and for all.

If that is so, let us hope that he will not follow in the footsteps of Mr Rabuka, for many of my own family members still bear the scars of Mr Rabuka’s storm troopers on their chests, and so do many other citizens from the 1987 and 2000 coups.

The Indo-Fijians, in 1987, were beaten, forced to stand in sewage pools, and subjected to other forms of humiliating punishments. 

The vast majority of Fijians remained 
silent to the oppression and racism in their midst. In fact, many joined in its continuation for the next ten years.

​But freedom, as former military strongman Mr Rabuka found out only very recently (after he was successfully defended by the President of the Fiji Law Society, Mr Sharma, on inciting mutiny), is a cherished and inviolable right.
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Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German operative of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.

After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for his anti-communist efforts and aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the dictatorial regime on how to repress opposition through torture.

​In 1983, the United States apologised to France for aiding Barbie's escape from an outstanding arrest warrant.

In 1972, it was discovered he was in Bolivia. While in Bolivia, the West German Intelligence Service recruited him. Barbie is suspected of having had a role in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza in 1980.

After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie lost the protection of the government in La Paz. In 1983, he was arrested and extradited to France, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.

Although he had been sentenced to death in absentia twice earlier, in 1947 and 1954, capital punishment had been abolished in France in 1981.

​Barbie died of cancer in prison in 1991, at age 77.

FICAC, FLIGHT AND SANEEM:  We may recall that both Sitiveni Rabuka and Biman Prasad had refused to sign the letter of complaint against SANEEM where he was alleged to be making illegal $500 PAYMENTS

2/2/2023

 

COMING SOON: Finance Minister Biman Prasad's appointment of SAVENDRA DAYAL as chairperson of FRCA, the government's chief revenue collector, came after DAYAL paid up $3million in taxes to FRCA

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GLITCH FREE COMPUTER DETECTS HE had STOP DEPARTURE ORDER

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DETAINED AT NADI AIRPORT
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From Fijileaks Archives, 18 December 2021

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Alleged false claims by former Chairman of the Electoral Commission

* It has been brought to our attention that Suresh Chandra had been claiming sitting allowances at the rate of $500 per meeting for numerous days over a long period of time when the Commission did not have any scheduled meetings on those days
* It is alleged that the payment of these fraudulent or false claims were authorized and facilitated by the Secretary to the Commission, Mohammed Saneem, who is also the Supervisor of Elections
* It is further alleged that Mohammed Saneem paid these fraudulent claims amounting to several thousand dollars each month, by issuing
CASH CHEQUES
* We have been informed that Chandra has made an application to the Independent Legal Services Commission to travel abroad for urgent medical treatment. However, our enquiries have revealed that he has
NO serious health issues and is not known to have been treated locally for any life-threatening conditions in recent times.
* We wish to add a further instance of serious professional misconduct on Saneem's part. It is alleged that the Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem recruited one NEELAM PRASAD to a specially created Public Relations and Engagement Co-ordinator position in November 2019 without advertising the post as required under the recruitment rules of the Fiji Elections Office.
It is believed that he directed the post not be advertised
* We urge you to order the immediate suspension of Mohammed Saneem and to order an investigation of the matter by notifying the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) and
the Auditor-General
* We look forward to your acknowledgement of this letter and a reply on the action you intend taking in the matter
* In conclusion, we wish to say that the Attorney-General and Minister for Elections has a lot to answer for on the matters raised in this matter
* We will address you separately on the issue following the conclusion of our enquiries with certain other government agencies
* We emphasis that we regard the issues raised herein and in our letters of August and 18 November 2021 as matters of public interest requiring immediate action on your part
Yours sincerely
Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, Leader, FLP
Jagath Karunaratne, Leader, Freedom Alliance
Savenaca Narube, Leader, Unity Fiji

​Fijileaks: Once again, both SITIVENI RABUKA and BIMAN PRASAD have not affixed their signatures to the above letter. We may recall the NFP leader, like a subservient apron-clad chambermaid, is waiting to crawl under the political bed next year, when he is in a NEW GOVERNMNENT, to find out what was going on under FFP rule.
​*For Bloody GOD's SAKE, how can YOU crawl under the political bed after the election to search for corruption, when it is allegedly rife in the
Fiji Elections Office, NOW!

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The Fiji Independent Commission against Corruption has concluded its investigation into the complaint lodged by leaders of three political parties.

The complaint was lodged against former Chair of the Electoral Commission, Suresh Chandra and Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem by Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry, leader of Freedom Alliance Jagath Karunaratne and leader of Unity Fiji Savenaca Narube.

In a statement, FICAC says the letter of complaint dated 21st December 2021 alleged Chandra, had claimed and was paid sitting allowances at a rate of $500 per meeting for numerous days, over a long period of time, when the Commission did not have any scheduled or unscheduled meetings.

​FICAC says they had initiated a thorough investigation and verified all relevant documents relating to the alleged payments, the recruitment process as well as interviewed a number of witnesses including the Complainants.

It says during the course of investigation, Jagath Karunaratne withdrew his complaint and did not provide a complete witness statement.

FICAC says it has established that there were no evidence whatsoever to support any of the false or fraudulent payments claimed and paid by Chandra and Saneem, respectively.

It says all payments made were legitimate payments verified and made in accordance with the Electoral Commission’s Governance and Operational Guidelines.

In relation to the recruitment allegation, it was established that the Fijian Elections Office had followed an open merit recruitment process as per its Human Resources Policy and all staff recruitments and their subsequent upgrading were done legitimately following the due process within the statutory powers vested in that Office.

FICAC says the allegations stated in the complaint were baseless and without any merit.

It also says that Chaudhry and Narube did not provide any cogent evidence to support their allegations during the investigations but simply relied upon hearsay information provided by unnamed sources.
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FICAC says the Commission has deemed that the complaint warrants no further legal action.
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PERVERSE DISTORTION, LIES AND FALSEHOOD: Sacked FBC CEO Riyaz Khaiyum denies all the allegations hurled against him by PAP's founding member and new FBC Chair Ajay Bhai Amrit. Show EVIDENCE

2/2/2023

 
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FALSE: * "I was not paid $32,000 a month in salary."
*Amrit’s allegation that I received more than $304,000 in salary during the COVID-19 pandemic is incorrect
*The '$200,000 FBC Vehicle. T
he previous FBC board had approved as part of my entitlement as the former CEO of FBC.
* The Chairperson’s claim that this vehicle cost FBC around $200,000, and is not true.
* The purchase of the vehicle was sanctioned by the Board, and it was suggested that the vehicle be imported from New Zealand to save cost. 
*The previous chairman has corroborated this information.
*Any professional board member would know that employment matters are confidential and should not be revealed to third parties.
*Why would the FBC Board whose fiduciary duty is to always act in the best interest of the company, want to have unprecedented dialogue and work with its media competitors in such an aggressively competitive media environment.
* What answers will the board give to its shareholders if it loses business and subsequent revenue to its competitors.
*Despite the amazing success by team FBC, the past boards, management and staff of the national broadcaster have continuously been subjected to conjecture and malicious rumours due to political point scoring, ignorance and professional jealousy by some media outlets who obviously continue to harbour resentment towards team FBC and me.
* Some media outlets are again blatantly ignoring to balance their recent negative stories about the FBC and have decided to only run the one-sided wild allegations by the new FBC board without making any attempts to get comments from me, and often, from the FBC.
* I was not provided with a single reason for my termination by the FBC Board, which occurred 3 days after the Board first met me.
*I only hope that the recent allegations and aspersions against me and the FBC are not part of any premeditated agenda because of my relationship with the former Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. 
* Perhaps a person with a different name would not have been subjected to such false allegations.
* Such an agenda would not only seek to damage my professional standing but would also aim to turn loyal FBC staff against me.
*I remain determined and reserve all my rights to take legal action against anyone that is involved in maligning my reputation and character, including members of the FBC Board.

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RIP, CAPTAIN X. On 14 May 1987, Captain X led 10 hooded gunmen who captured PM Timoci Bavadra and his FLP-NFP government. Captain X was ISIRELI DUGU, whom Coupist Rabuka had selected for the mission

1/2/2023

 

*Ironically, it was the late Dugu's assault on Parliament that day that saw Coupist Rabuka become PRIME MINISTER in 1992, 1994 and 2022.
However, there was no mention of Dugu's passing on Rabuka's Twitter

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In 2012 Dugu, who recently passed away, made peace with our Founding Editor-in-Chief after a mutual friend who had worked with him in Afghanistan had linked up the two protagonists.
​*He deeply regretted his role in the racially motivated COUP, claiming that Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka had brainwashed him and other soldiers to commit TREASON against the Bavadra Government. 
*Sadly, Rabuka never acknowledged Dugu's passing on his TWITTER handle, although he was at the funeral.
*He was very quick to wax lyrical on the passing of ALLEN LOCKINGTON, and even spoke at the funeral.
*RIP, ISIRELI DUGU.
*We didn't expect to hear from the 'DUNA' Rabuka, for if he had twitted, he would have been reminding us of his TREASON on that 14 May 1987.
*Ironically, it was the late Dugu's assault on Parliament that day that saw Coupist Rabuka become PRIME MINISTER in 1992, 1994 and 2022

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PAYING RESPECT: RFMF Commander Ro Jone Kalouniwai at the late Dugu's funeral service
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2006 BAINIMARAMA COUP: 
Pio Tikoduadua was actually in Australia when the Coup occurred. He was at the Australian Defence Studies with Timoci Lesikivatukoula. So technically, Tikoduadua was not in Fiji but soon as he got back to Fiji, he was appointed PSO to Frank Bainimarama, replacing Rod Narayan who joined the ADF after that. But Tikoduadua was very much part and parcel of Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Khaiyum's governing lot after 2006 to 2013 as a Cabinet Minister before he saw the light, as the Bible say's, "Light on the road to Damascus" 

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SUGAR, SUGAR, HONEY, HONEY. Sugar Minister CHARAN Jeat Singh reveals hefty pay packets of FSC Executives with former Sugar Daddy CEO ABDUL KHAN on $840,000, Zimbabwean Graham Clark on $728,128

1/2/2023

 
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SACK SAVENDRA DAYAL.
​Finance Minister BIMAN PRASAD must sack Dayal as chairperson of FRCA, for before being appointed Dayal was on the FSC Board and was Vice-Chair. He worked closely with former FSC CEO Graham Clark. Who nominated businessman Dayal to chair FRCA Board? Its like asking DRACULA to guard the Blood Bank.
Update: We understand that Dayal was PAP's nominee to FRCA

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Labasians: Prasad and Dayal
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Dayal with FSC CEO Clark and other Executives

One of the FSC Board Members and Vice-Chair SAVENDRA DAYAL was recently appointed by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister BIMAN PRASAD as chairman of the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service (FRCA), with Prasad congratulating the new Board chair
*How can a businessman SAVENDRA DAYAL be appointed to oversee the running of FRCA, the Government's principal revenue collector? 
*Isn't there a Conflict of Interest?
Its like Dracula guarding Businessmen friends 'Blood Tax Bank'
*Who nominated Dayal to the FRCA Board? 

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January 2021: Dayal and Graham Clark

*Was it Yogesh Karan, a fellow Labasian, like Prasad and Dayal, and PS to Labasa businessman and Sugar Minister Charan Jeat Singh?
*What was Savendra Dayal's role, if any, along with FSC chair Vishnu Dayal, in the salary scandal?
*Dayal, referred to as 'Mr Diaper' for his association with Johnson and Johnson Fiji, Australia and New Zealand, the sellers of 'baby powder, diapers, and other products', is also founder and director of Healthcare Products International, and other statutory bodies, including as a director on the Fijian Holdings Ltd Board
*Fijileaks: Prasad must SACK Dayal as Chair of FRCA, for the Coalition government is launching an investigation into the Fiji Sugar Corporation

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Since 2011, we have revealed one scandal after another at the FSC, including revelation that the former FSC CEO Abdul Khan's company Ajyink Electrical was awarded the electrification contract of the new look Nadi International Airport under the chairmanship of the late AFL Chairman, the late FAIZ KHAN, a crony of Aiyaz Khaiyum. But the local media in Fiji, frightened of the draconian Media Decree, never took up our revelations for over 10 years, and now seem to have been emboldened by the new Coalition government.
*The last major investigative story that rocked Fiji was when our Founding Editor-in-Chief, in February 2008, had revealed that Coupist Frank Bainimarama's Interim Finance and SUGAR Minister MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY, the leader of the FLP and general secretary of the National Farmers Union, was hiding $2million in his Sydney bank account, in violation of Fiji's Foreign Exchange Control Act. The result: the late Fiji Sun publisher RUSSELL HUNTER was abducted from his Tamavua home in front of his family, detained, tortured, deported, and banned from Fiji. 

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We are neither SHOCKED nor SURPRISED by the REVELATIONS

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Abdul Khan: $840,000
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Navin Chandra:
$546,564
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FSC chairman: Vishnu Mohan
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FSC CEO Bhan Pratap Singh and Yogesh Karan, PS Sugar Ministry
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​*Abdul Khan, former CEO: $802,800 base salary, allowances $37,200
*Graham Clark, former CEO: a base salary of $550,000 and $178,128 in allowances

 *Navin Chandra, Chief Operating Officer: $450,000 base salary; $96,564 in allowances
*Martin Welch, Advising Engineer: $368,500 base salary; $64,500 in allowances
*Gavin Taylor, Field Extension Services: $250,000 base salary; $85,564 in allowances
​*Manoj Ram, CFO: $250,000 base salary; $64,000 in allowances 

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Clark: $728,128
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Manoj Ram: $314,000
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Bainimarama:
Sugar Minister
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SUGAR MINISTER Charan Jeat Singh
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Fijileaks: The e-mail dated 30 January 2023 from FSC CEO Bhan Pratap Singh to Sugar Minister Charan Jeat Singh, Subject: 'Executive FSC Salaries'

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An inquiry is expected to begin into the hefty salaries and allowances paid to former chief executives of Fiji Sugar Corporation.

The Sugar Minister has revealed today that former CEO’s of the Fiji Sugar Corporation were being paid up to $840,000 per annum in Salary and allowances.

Charan Jeath Singh says it is even more outrageous that the Fiji Independent Commission against Corruption has taken more than three inefficient years to complete the investigation pertaining to abuse of office and corruption.

Singh says Abdul Khan, the former board member who advanced to CEO and Executive Chair of the FSC enjoyed a hefty salary package plus other benefits as high as $840,000 per annum while in the position for five years from 2011 until his resignation in 2016.

.“The problem starts from the top of FSC, they were taking hefty salaries while the farmers were being given a hard time Now when the allegation came that Abdul Khan and the previous CEOs were collecting big salary , everybody said no no it’s not true but now figures say for itself.”

He adds that for a company that is insolvent and merely keeping afloat on government-guaranteed loans and other government loans which have previously been written off, the former board must also be made to answer questions on how they allowed the FSC to be run irresponsibly with lavish expenditure without transparency and accountability of repeated loses year after year by its management.

“Abdul Khan and Graham Clark and others were paid so much that FSC technically could not afford it and as of today if you see FSC is totally bankrupt.”

The Minister says having said that, there is no surprise that exorbitant salary package was approved or overlooked by a board whose later chairman Vishnu Mohan, also being the Chairman of the PSC himself was milking the cow and enjoying perks of taxpayer-funded luxury whilst living in Canada and getting paid locally for a number of years.

Additionally, he says it was under the Chairmanship of Vishnu Mohan that an expatriate was chosen for the top job at FSC in 2017 to further burden the corporation.

Singh says Graham Clark, the Zimbabwe-born CEO in his tenure from 2017-2021 benefited from a remuneration and allowance disbursement of $728,000 per annum.

The Sugar Minister says under his leadership purchased 114 cane transporting trucks and mechanical harvesters and 30 tractors which are parked idle in off-season periods. An absolute waste and exploitation of desperate, much-needed funds.

The Minister also revealed that in extension to the luxurious salary, the position was another appointment of a Chief Operating Officer, Navin Chandra with a package and allowances exceeding $550,000 per annum, Martin Welch- Advising Engineer was receiving $433,000 per annum and Gavin Taylor- Field Extension Services was paid $335,000 per annum.

He adds it seems as if the FSC was an institution of personal growth and ambition.
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As the Minister for Sugar, he has sounded an alarm and put out a notice to those who intend mischief to not mess with the industry & the farmers and expect a major refinement and subsequent revival of what was once Fiji’s proud revenue earner.

From Fijileaks Archive, 20 October 2016:

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WAILEI (Si): MUANIVATU LAND OWNER BUDDIES: SACKED FBC CEO Riyaz Khaiyum and NZ based ROBERT KHAN, supplier of Equipment to FBC, bought plots of land for $269,000 each in MUANIVATU, Suva Point

31/1/2023

 

WINDFALL?: The two buddies bought the lands around at the same time, in January and February 2019 

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 MORTGAGE:
Home Finance Company Ltd

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I-Taukeization (what used to be condemned as the Fijianization) of all institutions, civil service,  and government has already begun by Rabuka. As we had warned, his 'Jinnah' - Water Boy - is silent as Roasted Lamb

30/1/2023

 

IN THE SHADOWS: Biman Prasad is busy trying to find millions to enable the `Coupist Rabuka to complete the i-Taukeization started in 1987

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*One of the most shocking is the appointment of the Labasa businessman Charan Jeat Singh as Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs when there is NOT even a Multi-Ethnic Affairs Ministry already in place. 
We wonder if NFP had promised one in its MANIFESTO?

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Just look at the recent appointment of the acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo, who has been selected over Justice Daniel Goundar.
*PAP and its leader SITIVENI RABUKA have one eye on the next election in case the Coalition government collapses with its one seat majority. Hence, he is bringing back the GCC, strengthening Provincial Councils, invoking Christian GOD, planning to release George Speight and his accomplices, and will sacrifice NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD to win over the majority of i-Taukei votes, which he had failed to win in the recent election.
*One of the most shocking is the appointment of the Labasa businessman Charan Jeet Singh as Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs when there is NOT even a Multi-Ethnic Affairs Ministry already in place. 
*Rabuka is too much in a hurry to revive the GCC, for he and his nationalist fanatics in PAP have calculated that their political survival depends on pandering and pampering to the i-Taukei population.
*The Indo-Fijians and Other non i-Taukei races can go to hell.
*We have always objected to a separate Ministry of i-Taukei Affairs and the creation of a separate Multi-Ethnic Affairs Ministry - for we have objected to the Compartmentalization of the races. At least, the FFP had attempted to break with the vicious division.
​Sadly,  two-man despots - Bai/Kai - ended up as DICTATORS. 
From Fijileaks Archive, 15 September 2015

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The consultant who reviewed the Affirmative Action programme for the Fiji Human Rights Commission provided ample opportunity to the Prime Minister's Office to respond to various queries. The consultant's recommendations titled 'Report on Government's Affirmative Programmes 2020 Plan for Indigenous Fijians and Rotumans and the Blueprint - June 2006', which the Commission is yet to officially release (but which Victor Lal had revealed in the Fiji Sun), notes that 'the government had decided that rather than the Government submitting comments on the consultant's draft report to the Commission, the Commission should proceed to its publication and public release'.

If it is true, than the Prime Minister is clearly wrong to raise the concern that FHR report on the Blueprint is definitely biased as the Commission consultant did not approach him or his CEO to get the government's side of the story on the setting up of the program. He also expressed concern that the report was only prepared by one consultant who never spoke to anyone at the PM's Office.

Mr Qarase said he is now analyzing the report following comments by the Commission that it would take the government to court if it does not make immediate changes to the Affirmative Action Program. According to the report, the Government was provided with a number of opportunities to be heard during the investigation. It was advised of the intention to investigate and invited to provide information about all affirmative action programmes. In March 2005 the Office of the Prime Minister was advised that a number of government ministries, departments and agencies had not responded to requests for information, and the assistance of that office was sought in obtaining their cooperation - some departments subsequently responded, others did not;

That same month the CEO of the Prime Ministers Department, the report claims, advised that at a discussion of departmental Chief Executive Officers on 18th March 2005 it had been agreed that the Prime Minister's Office would reply on behalf of Government through its Chief Executive Officer, though no response was received.
Over two months later, on 23rd May 2005, the CEO of Prime Ministers Office sent a copy of the publication For the Good of All, which had been tabled in Parliament in 2004. Later, on 24 November 2005, the same CEO sent copies of a second report on the implementation of the affirmative action programmes under the Social Justice Act that had been tabled as Parliamentary Paper No 108 of 2005. The CEO also supplied the Commission with a copy of the Preliminary Analysis by the ADB of the 2002/2003 Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (September 2005) together with comments.

Despite these opportunities already given, the Commission claims, it provided the Government with a final opportunity to comment on the investigators report and the draft report was sent to the government with the request that a response be received by 23 March 2006. The government subsequently sought an extension of time, and the date for final response was amended to 1 May 2006.

On 19 May 2006, according to the report, the CEO of the Prime Minister's Department wrote to the Commission to advise that the government had decided that rather than the Government submitting comments on the consultant's draft report to the Commission, the Commission should proceed to its publication and public release.

In 2004 the Commission had instigated an 'own motion' investigation into the Government's affirmative action programmes under the Social Justice Act 2001, aspects of the Blueprint initiated by the Interim Government in July 2000 and adopted and continued by the SDL Coalition Government, and the Social Justice Act itself. When notified of the Commission's intention to undertake the investigation, the SDL Coalition Government had offered its cooperation, says the report.

The Commission's decision to instigate the own motion investigation was triggered by the number of complaints it received from different sources about the Affirmative Action law and policy as well as by the Commission's own concerns about the proposals of two different Governments to enact Social Justice legislation for Fiji.

The investigation examined whether each affirmative action and blueprint programme, the policy, and the law complied with the requirements for affirmative action in Chapter 5 (section 44) of the Constitution. Based on the consultant's research, the report concludes that overall, but with some exceptions, the affirmative action programmes put in place by Government under the Social Justice Act 2001 do not comply with the Constitution.
The Social Justice Act 2001 does not comply with the Constitution.

It continues as follows:

1) Affirmative action programmes based on ethnicity do not comply with the Social Justice provisions (Chapter 5, section 44) of the Constitution.

2) The programme as a whole lacks a proportional balance between any disadvantage intended to be addressed and the measures being taken to alleviate the disadvantage. Minor or even presumed but non-existent disparities between ethnic groups have been used to justify the complete exclusion of groups other than indigenous Fijians and Rotumans from the bulk of the programmes.

3) The programmes fail to make provision for all who are disadvantaged. This is particularly so in relation to women, who are far more disadvantaged than men. Individual programmes are weighed so disproportionately against Indians, women and other disadvantaged groups as to undermine the legality of all the programmes based on ethnicity.l No programme accurately links its goals to the disadvantage borne by the target group that it is intended to overcome.

4) Few programmes identify any performance indicators and those that do have no historical component. It is therefore not possible to monitor the effectiveness of the programmes without data that identifies trends before and after the programmes were initiated. There is no data that relates to whether alleged disparities between indigenous Fijians and Rotumans and Indians, for example, have reduced in the areas where affirmative action programmes have been introduced.

On the question whether Government has discharged its burden of establishing justification for the programmes, the report says that the Government's principal justification for its affirmative action programmes, that the rural sector is poorer than the urban sector and a majority of indigenous Fijians live in rural areas, is seriously flawed. In fact, the poorest households in rural areas are Indian.

The Government's other main justification (that the average income of indigenous Fijians is below that of Indians and Others and therefore all indigenous Fijians are disadvantaged and entitled to affirmative action) does not meet the legal standards imposed by the Constitution, the Human Rights Commission Act, and international law.

The programmes fail to justify the distinctions based on ethnicity on which most of the programmes are based. The Government has not established that 'the race-based affirmative action programmes meet the legal standards for these particular programmes'.

According to the report,

1) the programmes have not been established in response to a justifiable compelling Government interest;l the programmes are not narrowly tailored to remedy the past discrimination or present disadvantage that they purport to correct;

2) the programmes are not narrowly tailored to exclude from the indigenous Fijian group preferred, any members who are not, or are no longer disadvantaged, through means testing, or class-based and other appropriate measures;

3) the programmes are inflexible, without waiver provisions to narrow their scope;

4) criteria in relation to targets make no reference to those qualified group members in the relevant sector or industry;l there is no evidence that the Government has considered race-neutral alternatives;

5) although the programmes are temporary, the periodic review mechanisms are inadequate;

6) there is little or no consideration given to degree and type of burden, including on excluded groups, caused by the programme.

The report goes on to ask whether affirmative action law and programmes are lawful, and answers in the following:

1) Since the Affirmative Action programmes do not fulfil the requirements of the Social Justice Chapter in the Constitution, they are not protected by the exemption in section 44 (4).

Accordingly, to the extent that certain disadvantaged groups are excluded from the Affirmative Action programmes, they are being unfairly discriminated against in contravention of their rights contained in section 38 (2) of the Constitution.

* Since the Affirmative Action programmes do not fulfil the requirements of section 21 of the Human Rights Commission Act, they amount to unfair discrimination in breach of section 17 of the Act.

* Since the Affirmative Action Programmes do not fulfil the 'special measures' requirements contained in international human rights instruments such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), they amount to a contravention of the rights contained in section 38 (2) of the Constitution.

* Since the Affirmative Action programmes are based on the Social Justice Act 2001, and the Social Justice Act itself breaches Chapter 5 of the Constitution, the programmes cannot be justified on grounds that they comply with the Act.It concludes by noting that the 50/50 by 2020 Development Plan, the Blueprint and the Social Justice Act 2001 have the combined effect of imposing large-scale discrimination against the minority ethnic groups, specifically on the disadvantaged categories within these groups, and more generally on other disadvantaged groups who have not been provided with affirmative action programmes to improve their conditions of life.

The affirmative action law, policies and programmes do not comply with the requirements of Chapter 5 of the Constitution.
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HOUSE BREAKING, ENTRY AND LARCENY: LO Bainimarama REJECTS Rabuka's offer to provide a fellow COUPIST paid Government quarters. 'It is illegal to make such an offer in the first place...GO study current law'

30/1/2023

 

Fijileaks: We will reveal how the former Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki, represented by Munro Leys and Howards Lawyers, cut a deal with the then Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum, before a Tribunal appointed to hear allegations of misbehaviour against Fatiaki began, and how Fatiaki ran away to Vanuatu in a $275,000 'golden handshake', leaving other judicial victims like the late Solicitor-General Nainendra Nand and others to fight their own cases, when Fatiaki had urged them to stand firm with him after his sacking following the 5 December 2006 COUP

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Fijileaks Editor-in-Chief: The former Chief Justice, the late Sir Timoci Tuivaqa's unpublished affidavit on us that denies Justice Daniel Fatiaki helped draft the Justice Decree 2000. But what is of interest is his revelation how Coupist Bainimarama had in his hand a copy of the Judiciary Decree which Sir Timoci recognised straight away as identical to Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka's 1987 Judicial Decree.

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Leader of Opposition, Voreqe Bainimarama has written to Speaker of Parliament, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, refusing to accept the paid Government quarters as it is illegal to make such an offer in the first place. Bainimarama says the current law does not allow for such a benefit for the Leader of Opposition. He says neither the Prime Minister nor the Speaker of Parliament can unilaterally go outside the scope of the law. Bainimarama says that in this instance, parliamentary approval is required for any amendments to the existing benefits. Source: Fijivillage News
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COALITION CHASING TAIL WIND: For 16 years, the Fijileaks Founding Editor-in Chief has been revealing the rot since the 5 December 2006 Coup. Today, he is subjected to vicious HATE for Not Endorsing Rabuka

30/1/2023

 

*But we stand by our decision NOT to endorse the racist coupist and PAP leader SITIVENI RABUKA, for we hold him responsible for paving the way for what we are witnessing (and have been witnessing) since 2006.
​We would have readily thrown our lot behind any Coalition to remove the FFP dictatorship but NOT as long as another Dictator was going to be re-elected as Prime Minister. A COUP IS A COUP.
All we can say to them: 'For Your Tomorrow, I Gave My Today'.

CHASING THE TAIL WIND: The new FBC chairman Ajay Bhai Amrit is now confirming that reports are true regarding the purchase of a vehicle for the CEO that has cost the company nearly $200,000. Amrit says the vehicle is in Fiji and he would like to see it put to tender and see what they can recuperate and give the money back to FBC.
We revealed the purchase of the vehicle on 27 December 2022

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RIYAZ Khaiyum reminds us of VISANTI MAKRAVA whom Coupist Rabuka appointed at point of a gun to lead the National Bank of Fiji. As Narsey pointed out, $400million was stolen from the bank, leading to Bankruptcy

30/1/2023

 

RABUKA-REDDY'S FINANCE MINISTER: Wadan Narsey was slated as the Coalition's new Finance Minister if Rabuka had won the 1999 election

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15 October 2017, reproduced by Fijileaks
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Fijileaks: Why wasn't the FBC CEO Riyaz Khaiyum suspended and a travel ban placed against him, until full investigation was completed. Instead, we are getting headline grabbing soundbites from PAP founding member and now chair, FBC Board, AJAY BHAI AMRIT. Riyaz, just like Amrit and Makrava, are a long list of 'SONS OF THE GUNS'

"Rabuka had appointed Visanti Makrava in December 1987, at the point of a gun. Makrava entered the NBF headquarters in Suva with a group of soldiers saying he had been appointed by the Brigadier, as Rabuka was then. At the time Makrava was manager of the NBF's Samabula branch where the army did its banking...The other link Rabuka had with the bank was through his friend and former army commander, Paul Manueli, who had become NBF chairman in January 1988. He was to stay in that position until June 1992 when he left to become Rabuka's Minister of Finance...Makrava certainly did Rabuka no favours when he was reported to have said, "If I open my mouth, half the Government goes, including the leader."

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22 December 1987

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