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TRANSPARENCY Champion Forgets to Declare the Company He Co-Founded with his Cousin but Remembered GDN Just Fine
*In 2014, he disclosed in his statutory declaration that he was a DIRECTOR of GDN - Global Development Network. A decade later, he even addressed its meeting in 2024, in his capacity as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister.
*However, in that same 2014 declaration, he lied in order to enter Parliament as an NFP MP. He failed to disclose that he had co-founded and was a DIRECTOR of Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd, a mandatory declaration under the Political Parties Act.
*Paragraph (6) of the statutory declaration form for 2014 clearly reminded Biman Chand Prasad that providing any false information constitutes an offence punishable by a fine of up to $50,000 or imprisonment for up to TEN (10) YEARS
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