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FICAC: 'We did not RAID FNU Nasinu HQ but Investigating" - Locking out staff for 12 hours, searching offices, taking computers, and documents is not called a raid, ah?

13/11/2014

The Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) says it did not raid Fiji National University's Nasinu as claimed in some reports. The Commission however has confirmed it is investigating the institution's campus and details will be released later. “The word “raid” is likened to some sudden assault or attack as for something to be seized. It means force entry, incursion or invasion and we don’t do that here at FICAC or even associate ourselves with such a word in the nature of our work, said Nandini Vandhana, the Public Relations Officer of FICAC. .“These words are used in Syndicate Operation’s of drugs or other criminal offences, but not in fraud or corrupt related matters where the highest standard of diplomacy is employed to obtaining what we want to assist in our investigation,” she said. She added FICAC is a professional organization that upholds and values professionalism in its work ethic’s, and ensures that all its activities are done within the bounds of the law. Source: Fijilive, 13 November 2014; below Fijileaks headline:

FICAC raids Fiji National University HQ at Nasinu (from 10am-10pm) and carts away documents for alleged misuse of public funds; FICAC's investigation on FNU Vice Chancellor & other scams coming soon

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Calling by wrong name has just posted a comment on your blog post, FICAC: 'We did not RAID FNU Nasinu HQ but Investigating" - Locking out staff for 12 hours, searching offices, taking computers, and documents is not called a raid, ah?:

FICAC people can get confused about the right name. A gentleman wrote to the Fiji Times today to let a lady from FICAC know that she had got his name wrong in a letter she had written to defend FICAC against his criticism.

I hope FICAC has a dictionary to help its officials with the meaning of the word RAID.

Letters to the Editor, Fiji Times, 13 November 2014:
FICAC response

THANK you Nandini Vandhana of FICAC (FT 12/10) for the reply to my letter which is much appreciated.

However, just a correction, my surname is not Sharma but Mishra. A simple mistake like this can put some one in hot soup or throw the case out of court.

Since you people are so concerned about corruption in the country and doing everything to get rid of it, I hope you have read the Auditor-General's report and are prepared to take action on people who have misused millions of taxpayers money in the last eight years.

Hope you people will also investigate the jobs given to people or companies without being advertised or tenders called for.

NARDEO MISHRA, Suva

EXCERPT FROM FICAC INVESTIGATION INTO FIJI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AND VICE-CHANCELLOR

EXCHANGING DOCUMENTS FOR PRISON EDUCATION:
FNU Vice-Chancellor Dr Ganesh Chand and FCS's Colonel Vasu

INMATES TO RECEIVE ACADEMIC TRAINING
Inmates at the Fiji Corrections Service (FCS) will now be able to receive academic training in the areas of professional development programmes, student attachment and research at the Fiji National University. This has been made possible through a partnership between the Fiji National University (FNU) and Fiji Corrections Service (FCS). FCS Commissioner, Lieutenant Colonel Ifereimi Vasu said the partnership will assist youth at the corrections centres to find work after being released from prison. Lt Col. Vasu said it was hard for the inmates to find jobs and there was no support from their families. “I understand if we can support them in terms of education, they will help the nation,” he said. He said he wanted the programmes to be tailor made to the demands of the labour market. FNU Vice Chancellor, Dr Ganesh Chand said the idea of an MOU between the two entities was mooted in 2008. “We have been discussing with the FCS on ways and means in which we as an educational institution can assist the services and particularly the inmates, on giving them appropriate skills for their after-prison life,” he said. Source: Fijilive, 13 November 2014

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Independent Corruption Commission decree: "The Fiji interim cabinet has approved creation of an Independent Commission against Corruption that is to report directly to the President. The Commission is charged to receive, investigate, and prosecute complaints in its own capacity, independent of the Director of Public Prosecution and the Fiji Police Force. The Commission will have powers of search, seizure, and arrest, and the mandate will include investigation of election irregularities. Since the coup, an "anti-corruption unit" under oversight of Deputy RFMF Commander Teleni and headed by Nasir Ali has been undertaking raids against businesses and government ministries on the basis of rumor and with no noticeable rule-of-law restraints. Presumably that unit will be subsumed within the new Commission. Interestingly, the anti-corruption unit and the Fiji Police competed this week to investigate the Ministry of Public Works. Police have had an investigation under way (slowly) since 2003. On March 28, they entered and seized documents only hours before anti-corruption unit officials arrived to do the same. Reportedly, the anti-corruption unit put its foot down and Police investigators are backing off." US Ambassador Larry Dinger to Washington, Wikileaks.

Fijileaks Editor: It's time to seriously consider 'handcuffs' and not handshakes! The 2006 coup made Fiji a magnetic Aladdin's cave for Indo-Fijians (some) who hid behind Bainimarama/Khaiyum's equality for all to plunder the country

ADHURA SAPNA (2007 Hindi Movie; the story, we are told, is about a hardworking Indian sugarcane farmer whose wife wants them to migrate overseas for greener pastures but at the same time she is cheating on him with another man). FIJILEAKS EDITOR: It is time to bring FNU allegations before a Special Investigation Commission, for FICAC has too much on its plate. The people of Fiji have been taken for a ride, and for too long, as if watching a movie - but these allegations are a reality that needs to be addressed, and SOON! We blame newspapers and that chap from MIDA, forgot his name, who went to Geneva to tell the world we need ethical journalism in Fiji! As Indo-Fijians, we should hold our heads in SHAME FOR WHAT OUR OWN PEOPLE HAD BEEN UP TO UNDER EIGHT YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP. We thought we had heard the last of the likes of Mahendra Chaudhry. The Modi Mania is another example of our collective amnesia - after all it was BJP which secretly gave Chaudhry the $2million, channelled through Indian Consulate in Sydney

And coming soon: What FICAC found on Agni Deo Singh, Member of the FNU Council

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HEALTHGATE: FICAC Report was completed between Jan-March 2012; Interim regime hid it from the voters; its nothing new - they did the same with Chaudhry 'File' in 2007

12/11/2014

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Fijileaks Editor: SPOT THE DIFFERENCE - In 2007/2008 Fiji Sun was in forefront of exposing Chaudhry's secret millions, now Fiji Sun is State's propaganda organ, with MIDA ensuring investigative journalism remains DEAD in Fiji; in 2007 the same FICAC deputy Langman had denied receiving SUN's investigation findings, sent by registered post to him:

Blind to Chaudhry's file in 2007/2008
Langman and Bainimarama

The following is excerpted from Victor Lal and Russell Hunter's submission to DPP in September 2012:

"We (Lal and Hunter) had, before the publication of the first story on 15 August 2007, already mapped out our publication strategy, as an e-mail dated 10 August 2007 from Mr Hunter to Victor Lal reveals:

“Here is what I think. We publish, pointing out that these files were received before the coup. We don't name the daaku - at least not yet. We hand over copies of the documents to FICAC - and say so - and also to the RBF intelligence unit but don't say so.

We challenge FICAC to launch an inquiry naming the person being investigated - as it has done in the past. It won't do it, of course. But we can keep on badgering them about it. When the boot boys come down here demanding all our information we can put our hands on our hearts and say FICAC already has it.

At least someone is acting in the public interest here.”

Victor Lal agreed to the strategy, commenting: “Ok. The end game is to name him and I am sure we will get there.”

FICAC and Interim Prime Minister Bainimarama get tax documents

On 13 August 2007 Victor Lal sent all the tax documents in his possession to FICAC’s deputy head Lt Col George Langman and also copied them to the then Interim Prime Minister Commodore Bainimarama.

While Commodore Bainimarama did not reply, Lt Col Langman, on the other hand, claimed that he did not receive the documents, which was sent by registered post to him, and addressed to FICAC headquarters in Suva. He further claimed that they did not have the expertise to investigate tax evasion charges by the “Minister” and had referred it to FIRCA to deal with. At no point in time did Lt Colonel Langman ask Victor Lal to re-submit copies of the tax documents.

Under the heading “Re: Mr Mahendra Chaudhry and FIRCA Tax Documents”, Victor Lal wrote to Lt Colonel Langman:

1: In 2005, I anonymously received a brown envelope purportedly containing the tax records (1994-2004) of Mr Mahendra Chaudhry, currently the Minister of Finance in Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s Interim Government. I looked through it and put it on the shelves. When the coup took place (which I supported in my Fiji Sun columns on the grounds of Doctrine of Necessity) and the list of the Cabinet ministers was announced, I could not resist reaching for that mysterious brown envelope that had been gathering dust on my shelve.

2: In January I began examining the documents on proving certain conclusions. I collaborated with overseas publications, which submitted the documents to forensic accountants who offered the view that while this kind of behaviour was entirely typical of attempted tax evasion they did not by themselves prove tax evasion. More investigation was needed on that front.

3. What is relevant, however, is what the documents reveal, and the conclusion and speculation that is derived from them, and particularly how Mr Chaudhry appears to have accumulated such a vast fortune, in such a short space of time. We also found that Mr Chaudhry did not submit returns for three years (2000, 2001, 2002) was proved. What else?

4: The income tax records purportedly relating to him reveal late payments, penalties, and negotiations to bring down payments, and huge lump sum payments and negotiated settlements over the 10-year period...

13: These are, according to experienced English tax assessors, very large payments by someone who is a mere politician. These are negotiated settlements for undeclared incomes, which the Cabinet minister could not argue his way out with the Fiji taxman. The large number of assessments and charges imposed also shows FIRCA “discovering” undeclared income. These two payments, at a top tax rate of 32% in Fiji, represent undeclared income of around $300,000.

14: As I have already noted, most of the figures purportedly belonging to Mr Chaudhry cannot be accurate to the dollar unless the actual taxation and interest formula are known. But on the assumptions made the figures are fairly close, and raise the question of the sources of the additional incomes.

15: From a legal perspective, it is worth reminding ourselves that in the past, High Court judges attempted to draw a bright line between tax avoidance, on the one hand, and tax mitigation or tax planning, on the other. One widely used definition is that of Lord Nolan in Willoughby, that tax avoidance is a course of action designed to conflict with or defeat the evident intention of Parliament, even if all legal routes are followed to avoid paying tax. It is curious that Mr Chaudhry as a former Government auditor and Finance Minister in the deposed Bavadra Government has not be[en] able to correctly assess his tax records, and has not been following the rules on submission of his tax returns.”

In November 2007 Victor Lal sent the tax documents once again to Commodore Bainimarama via the Prime Minister’s private secretary Parmesh Chand.

For PM Commodore Bainimarama

FROM: Victor Lal

TO: [email protected]

Thursday, 29 November 2007, 23:43

Dear Parmesh

Bula.

I would be very grateful if you could pass on the following attachments to the PM, although I had sent the originals with supporting documents to him in August. You might want to also inform him that I have other supporting evidence against the Interim Minister regarding my most recent article and the Australian bank accounts etc. I hope you will inform the Prime Minister that he cannot expect us to call upon FIRCA to investigate its own boss until the Interim Minister is stood down from Cabinet. There is no malicious intent on my part, especially when I supported the initial coup under the Doctrine of Necessity, to weed out corruption etc.

Warm regards
Victor Lal

Further excerpt from submission to DPP:

However, before going public, we gave Mr Chaudhry the right to admit or deny that he was the Interim Cabinet Minister in question. On the advice of Mr Hunter, Victor Lal had, on Monday August 6, 2007, sent Mr Chaudhry a list of questions regarding his (Mr Chaudhry’s) tax matters to a private e-mail address. Victor Lal had used the same e-mail address some years previously to communicate with Mr Chaudhry: <[email protected]>. It was a formal e-mail and was sent under the Fiji Media Council’s Code of Ethics. The e-mail read:

“Dear Mr Mahendra Chaudhry,

Further to my earlier questions, I would be extremely grateful if you could indicate whether you are willing to confirm or deny that the interim Cabinet Minister that the Daily Post alluded to is none other than yourself. As I mentioned, I am working on a general tax story and your co-operation as interim Minister of Finance would be greatly appreciated.

You will also agree that although the Income Tax Act requires the FIRCA to maintain secrecy, it does not permit the taxpayer not to be untruthful in reporting his tax details.

Again, I would be extremely grateful if you could explain why you did not submit your tax returns in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003, presuming you are the minister in question?

Also, why were you allegedly wrong in calculating your earnings, given that you are a former government auditor, a former finance minister in the ousted Bavadra government, and now the official purse keeper of the nation?”

In the same e-mail Victor Lal raised other matters:

“I would also be grateful if you could answer the questions that I sent you on the Cyclone Ami and the Haryana funds. I hope you fully understand the seriousness of the matter and that your name is now being floating around on the Internet; especially on Why Fiji is Crying website.

It is therefore in your own interest and in the interest of the nation and the interim government to confirm or deny that you are the minister in question, and are willing to give your side of the story… I look forward to hearing from you, preferably by the end of the week, as my deadline for the story is approaching, and as required by the Media Council’s Code of Ethics.

Yours sincerely,

Victor Lal.”

Mr Chaudhry ignored the above questions. As a result, on Wednesday August 15, 2007, the Fiji Sun ran Victor Lal’s version of Mr Chaudhry’s tax affairs, without naming him (Mr Chaudhry) as the Interim Minister: “Taxman and the Minister - Revealed: How FIRCA did not believe him.”

Fijileaks Editor: A year later, on 24 February 2008, Victor Lal revealed Chaudhry's $2million with supporting documents, resulting in the abduction and deportation of Hunter from Fiji. In the course of his three-year investigation Lal finally tracked down Chaudhry's millions to Haryana in India. Victor Lal had written to Hunter on 13 February 2008: “WE HAVE GOT HIM. Thanks - Father Murphy got the files and heaven has finally opened up on the Haryana money - we can even confront him and name him...". The two had kept the investigation completely under wraps from senior Fiji Sun journalists, whom they suspected of being Chaudhry sympathizers on the paper, and Hunter changed the headline at the eleventh hour to avoid any 'leak' of the story before the reading public woke up on 24 February. Hunter was resigned to face the consequences as he informed Lal on 23 February 2008: “They won't charge me. But they may deport me. Of course all that will do is make the story truly international. They're too dumb or too desperate (or both) to see it. Anyway, I'm not worried about it.” Hunter was deported out of Fiji on 25 February 2008.

THE FICAC report shines light on the dark side of his Health Ministry

A PLEA TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS: Fiji Sun will not teach you
The Art of Investigative Journalism and HOLDING POWER TO ACCOUNT, for as you can see from its Coconut Wireless column, they are TOO busy attacking individuals singled out by the Bainimarama/Khaiyum Government to discredit in their paper:

Fijileaks will reveal identity soon

The 'Italian Job' from inside Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's Attorney-General Cambers:

Fijileaks Editor: Coming soon - How one of the lawyer's in Attorney-General's Chambers helped Vashu Devan, one of the key suspects with former Health Minister Neil Sharma, form one of Devan's companies in 2011 in Fiji, and helped him allegedly lie on the registration form to the Registrar of Companies that Devan was a Fiji citizen, when in fact, according to FICAC Report, he was a citizen of New Zealand

Fijileaks Editor: And keep visiting our website for scores of other scams involving FijiFirst Party Cabinet Ministers and MPs based on leaked files from inside FICAC, FIRCA and Auditor-General's office, including how Khaiyum tried to allegedly protect a businessman accused of
torching another businessman's house:

Fijileaks Editor: We will soon peel off the stripe from this Facebook 'Tigress' face; a Justice of Peace and Commissioner of Oath in Fiji who has been threatening Victor Lal on her Facebook on behalf of Timoci Natuva, another Cabinet Minister heavily implicated in leaked FICAC files

BUT IT SEEMS VIOLENT THREATS IS PART OF FIJIFIRST PARTY SUPPORTERS AND EVEN MPs; RECALL THIS ONE NOW AN MP:

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REPEAT OFFENDER: Auditor-General expresses despair at Chief Justice Gates' use of Government vehicle for personal commitments; Justice Ministry says President approved car use!

11/11/2014

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FICAC raids Fiji National University HQ at Nasinu (from 10am-10pm) and carts away documents for alleged misuse of public funds; FICAC's investigation on FNU Vice Chancellor & other scams coming soon!

11/11/2014

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RESUSCITATING COVER UP: FICAC statement on Dr Neil Sharma that it is still investigating NOT TRUE; FICAC 'file' (52 pages) had closed investigation and recommended CHARGES!

11/11/2014

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Fiji SUN running away with story without mentioning Fijileaks as source!

GOLDEN WITNESS: Fijileaks is temporarily holding back the statement of this key FICAC witness in whose presence Sharma and Devan cut deal!

Fijileaks will UNMASK identity if lies continues

"In the presence of ______and Dr. Eloni Tora, Honorable Minister, then calls Mr. Vashu Devan on his cell phone and asks him to make his way to his office. Mr. Vashu Devan makes his way to the office of the Minister. Mr. Vashu Devan had visited the Minister on other occasions and as such he had no difficulty in making his way to his office promptly. Shortly afterwards, Dr. Eloni Tora excused himself from the meeting and the meeting between Dr. Neil Sharma, _and Mr. Vashu Devan continued. Honorable Minister released confidential information of the evaluated tender “The Price Summary” for all the companies to Mr. Vashu Devan in the presence of __. Dr. Neil Sharma told Mr. Vashu Devan to have a look at it and keep it. The release of confidential tender document with summary of price for individual bidders was to assist Mr. Vashu Devan compute six month costs for reagents which was omitted in the initial bid...It is further alleged that the company was eliminated at the initial tender evaluation for not meeting the specs; however, the Honorable Minister systematically manipulated the system and colluded by way of disclosing confidential bid analysis to Mr. Vashu Devan for him to provide costs of reagents for the six months to _ via email... further revealed that upon receipt of the summary of cost analysis from the Minister, Mr. Vashu Devan then called someone abroad and talked about Consumables and Reagent pricing. and have submitted a letter outlining series of events that eventuated during the meeting with the Minister, Dr. Tora, Mr. Vashu Devan and . Disclosure of confidential summary of bid analysis on pricing by Dr. Neil Sharma of evaluated tender to Mr. Vashu Devan of Hospineer (eliminated Company) after tender call, evaluation and recommendation, is unethical, corrupt in nature, immoral and questions the integrity of Dr. Neil Sharma. The release of vital information facilitated Mr. Vashu Devan to obtain 1st six months pricing for consumables and reagents and submit to _via email after close of bid. Had the vital information, “Price Comparison Summary” on consumables and reagents not [been] released, Mr. Vashu Devan would not have been able to submit the pricing for reagents. Dr. Neil Sharma’s conduct to release confidential information of evaluated tender to Mr. Vashu Devan an unsuccessful bidder has elements of abuse of authority, collusion and decept[ion]. Mr. Vashu Devan is told to email his total cost of reagents for a period of six months via email to ___. Considering that Mr. Vashu Divan’s Company has been eliminated, Honorable Minister analytically sees a way out to award the bid to Mr. Vashu Devan. The above facts on the Honorable Minister’s actions are nothing less than abuse of office, collusion, conspiracy and official corruption with willful intention to defraud state."

Fijileaks Editor: The initial tender had been awarded to Roche Diagnostics Company Ltd of New Zealand; Devan's tender had been eliminated in the first round.

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The Highway Robbers: Leaked FICAC file reveals Bainimarama illegally authorized $6million worth of road works after site visit of Nadarivatu Highland Rd;Natuva implicated in road scam

10/11/2014

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While Frank Bainimarama and Timoci Natuva are preaching to the public from inside Fiji's new Parliament, businessman Feroz Jan Mohammed and two former workers of the then Department of National Roads Iliesa Turagacati and Navitalai Tamanitoakula, are charged with bribery, obtaining a financial advantage and abuse of office.

The charge alleges between February 27 and July 2012, Mohammed, a director of TF Jan Bulldozing Company Limited, offered payments amounting to $93,000 to Turagacati, who was a public servant employed as an acting project accountant in the then Department of National Roads. It is also alleged in that same period, Mohammed and his company obtained a financial advantage amounting to $3,132,773.77 by receiving money the company was not entitled to, upon submitting false invoices and circumventing the proper procedures concerning the processing of payments with the influence of Turagacati.

According to the charges, the payments were made from the funds allocated for upgrading the Nausori Highland road. The third accused in this matter, Tamanitoakula, is charged with abuse of office. He is alleged to have processed payments amounting to $2,468,169.86 paid to TFJan Bulldozing Company Limited without following proper procedures.

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SPREADING their risks: Leaked FICAC file reveals Aunty Nur Bano Ali hosted fundraising for SDL at Sheraton for 2006 general election with businessmen making big donations

9/11/2014

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Fijileaks Editor: We will reveal the donors soon who are now 'sleeping in bed' with the Fijifirst Party. The recent FICAC file supplements FIRCA file that was leaked to Victor Lal which had resulted in a Fiji Sun front page story on 12 February 2008: 'SDL company raised $1.7m - No tax paid on funds raised to fight 2006 election' (all of Lal's writings have been removed from the paper's archive by the current pro-regime propagandists on the SUN); the Victor Lal investigation had revealed how the then interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry had ordered FIRCA to carry out an audit of SDL's company, the Duavata Initiative Ltd, with plans for prosecution; FICAC file details the list of donors and their financial contributions

P.S: Overlooked and not overlooks; and triggered and not trigged!

Fijileaks Editor: It seems Chaudhry was not able to press-gang FICAC to proceed after he had presented FIRCA findings to Cabinet on 16 January 2008, for the following month, on 24 February 2008, Victor Lal had revealed Chaudhry's own secret $2million from Haryana that he
(Chaudhry) was hiding in Australia

PUNCH drunk with power derived from the barrel of the gun in 2006

THIS latest disclosure in the Fiji High Court is just one of many cases Chaudhry was ordering FIRCA to carry out, many against his perceived political opponents who were accused of supporting the 2000 coup:

FICAC witness says Mahendra Chaudhry directed investigation against payment of Peni Mau
Monday, 10/11/2014, Fijivillage News:

A former internal auditor of Finance Ministry told the Suva High Court today that former Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry had directed a Special Investigation against the final payment of former Managing Director of Post Fiji Limited Peni Mau in 2007.

Evangeleen Talei is the final witness for FICAC in this trial.

Talei told the court that in March 2007 she joined an audit team of eight lead by their Director Internal Audit to do the special investigation.

Talei said they spoke to Acting General Manager Dhirendra Pratap and other staff of the Accounts section.

Talei added they looked at the payment voucher to determine the calculation of the payment of $210,666.67 as there was a difference of $24,000 as gratuity payment.

She said they were not able to reconcile the figures and asked for Peni Mau’s contract.

She said they went through the contract and nothing was mentioned about a gratuity payment.

She added they went back to Dhirendra Pratap where they were given a letter written by Mahendra Patel after their investigation was about to end on 19th April 2007, stating that Peni Mau’s contract has been extended.

She added according to the letter Mau was paid two years four months’ salary and the gratuity payment.

Talei mentioned that they also went through the board minutes of 8th March 2007 where they were no resolutions passed for Mau’s payment.

She added they submitted their investigation report to the former minister on 1st June 2007.

Earlier today, another FICAC witness and former board member of Post Fiji Limited, Lute Powell told the High Court that she overheard Mahendra Patel having informal discussions on the extension of Mau’s contract and saying something about the Higher Salaries Commission during a board meeting. Powell agreed with defence lawyer, Hamendra Nagin that Mau’s contract was extended till 2009 however he left Post Fiji in 2007.

Mau is charged with former Chairman of Post Fiji Limited Mahendra Patel and the former General Manager Finance, Direndra Pratap.

Mau is charged with extortion by public officers.

It is alleged that between 26th and 27th of February 2007 Mau while being employed in the public service as Managing Director of Post Fiji accepted a promise of a reward namely gratuity payment for his early exit from employment with Post Fiji Limited which was beyond his proper pay and emoluments.

The trial is underway without the presence of Patel who is in Australia.

Patel is charged with abuse of office.

Peni Mau, Fiji High Court told, was paid two years four months’ salary and the gratuity payment but they couldnt find any authorization of the payment; so when will Bainimarama, Khaiyum and Aunty Nur Bano Ali be hauled before the Fiji High Court based on the A-G's recent Report?:

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/aunty-nur-bano-alis-aliz-pacific-ltd-was-handed-job-to-pay-regime-ministrs-salaries-in-2010-to-2013-18-million-paid-to-ministers-without-supporting-documents-bainimaramas-got-57500-gratuity-payment-i-2012-for-what-who-authorized-it

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Hari Punja, another Chaudhry target, Vayeshnoi “crony” “More vindictiveness? Chauhdry and FMF: “Another long-standing Chaudhry enemy has been Hari Punja, the highly successful founder of Flour Mills of Fiji (FMF). When the Chinese built a large gym for Suva's South Pacific Games a few years ago, Punja bought naming rights for what became the "FMF Dome." Reportedly FMF recently was a few days late in depositing its periodic payment for the rights, not an uncommon occurrence in Fiji.The Fiji Sports Council (FSC) response was immediate cancellation of the agreement. The "FMF Dome" logo then was painted out from the front of the gym. Under the interim government, Chaudhry crony Vayeshnoi is Sports Minister and Chaudhry son Rajendra is on the FSC board.” US ambassador Larry Dinger to Washington, Wikileaks

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Thank you, Vinaka and Dhanyavaad. Yes, Dr Mahendra Reddy, at least as Education Minister you could have acknowledged the sources/ideas in your speech to FNU Lautoka campus

8/11/2014

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Dr Neil Sharma and China connection: As new cache of damning FICAC files are leaked to Fijileaks, it emerges Health Minister might have misled Khaiyum and aborted Chinese deal

7/11/2014

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Fijileaks: GET READY FOR MORE LATER ON FIJI'S HEALTHGATE SCAM and HOW SHARMA AWARDED CONTRACT TO INDO-FIJIAN AND NOT CHINESE COMPANY:

FICAC WHILE CALLING ON DPP TO PROSECUTE SHARMA AND OTHERS: 'Unfortunately, tax payers fund has been abused as the tender award was given to Mr. Vashu Devan’s company.'

身体力行 - Practice what you preach.

THE 2006 BAINIMARAMA COUP BECAME AN OPEN CESSPOOL FOR ROGUE INDO-FIJIANS TO DIP INTO PUBLIC PURSE AND ENRICH THEMSELVES; FICAC FILE ON NEW ZEALANDER JOHN PRASAD:

THE FLY-BY-NIGHT INDO-FIJIAN DEVOTEES TURNED DAYLIGHT GRAVE ROBBERS: Remember that New Zealander John Prasad (right picture with Bainimarama and Khaiyum), the former milkman technologist turned 'water and sugar expert', who arrived with John Samy to prop up post-coup Bainimarama regime. He was paid $NZ140,000 tax free, car and phone given free at taxpayers' expense; he was chairman of various Boards: FDB, Fiji Water Authority, Fiji National Provident Fund etc, etc, etc - we will tell what FICAC found and why the swindler and con artist fled Fiji, as contained in FICAC file on him!

"I SEE HIM HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE'

LIKE his former chum John Prasad, Ajit Kodagoda is seen on various Boards; whatever happened to Bainimarama's call that ONE PERSON MUST BE ONLY ON ONE BOARD? Kodagoda is chairman FNFP; ATH, Vodaphone, Reserve Bank (deputy chairman) and HCF Bank Member, not to mention a full-time Group Financial Controller of CJ Patel (Pacific) Ltd.

Fijileaks Editor: In that ATH press release (16 July 2009) we were told that John Prasad and Ajit Kodagoda will join Taito Waqa, the Ministry of Labour Permanent Secretary.

In the coming weeks, we will reveal from the new cache of files leaked to Fijileaks what FICAC held on Taito Waqa following its completion of investigations on him in 2011. Waqa's boss was Jone Usamate, the then Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, and now new Health Minister.

DIPLOPIA (Seeing Double Vision?) Dr Neil Sharma tells Radio New Zealand International that he's not aware of there being an investigation into his conduct by FICAC but in the next breath tells FBC News the case against him is ongoing and he has nothing to say to the media

LOST FOCUS ALONG THE WAY: SHARMA as portrayed in Government paper FijiFocus, 27 November 2010

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Needle Found in the Health Scam Stack: Aiyaz Khaiyum had approved waiver for Health Minister Neil Sharma to pay over $250,000 to NZ based company without tender process

7/11/2014

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Fijileaks Editor: It's time to seriously consider 'handcuffs' and not handshakes! The 2006 coup made Fiji a magnetic Aladdin's cave for Indo-Fijians (some) who hid behind Bainimarama/Khaiyum's equality for all to plunder the country

And coming soon: What FICAC found on Agni Deo Singh, Member of the FNU Council

A PLEA TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS: Fiji Sun will not teach you The Art of Investigative Journalism and HOLDING POWER TO ACCOUNT, for as you can see from its Coconut Wireless column, they are TOO busy attacking individuals singled out by the Bainimarama/Khaiyum Government to discredit in their paper:

Fijileaks Editor: We will soon peel off the stripe from this Facebook 'Tigress' face; a Justice of Peace and Commissioner of Oath in Fiji who has been threatening Victor Lal on her Facebook on behalf of Timoci Natuva, another Cabinet Minister heavily implicated in leaked FICAC files

BUT IT SEEMS VIOLENT THREATS IS PART OF FIJIFIRST PARTY SUPPORTERS AND EVEN MPs; RECALL THIS ONE NOW AN MP:

Fiji SUN running away with story without mentioning Fijileaks as source!

GOLDEN WITNESS: Fijileaks is temporarily holding back the statement of this key FICAC witness in whose presence Sharma and Devan cut deal!

Peni Mau, Fiji High Court told, was paid two years four months’ salary and the gratuity payment but they couldnt find any authorization of the payment; so when will Bainimarama, Khaiyum and Aunty Nur Bano Ali be hauled before the Fiji High Court based on the A-G's recent Report?:

THE 2006 BAINIMARAMA COUP BECAME AN OPEN CESSPOOL FOR ROGUE INDO-FIJIANS TO DIP INTO PUBLIC PURSE AND ENRICH THEMSELVES; FICAC FILE ON NEW ZEALANDER JOHN PRASAD:

DIPLOPIA (Seeing Double Vision?) Dr Neil Sharma tells Radio New Zealand International that he's not aware of there being an investigation into his conduct by FICAC but in the next breath tells FBC News the case against him is ongoing and he has nothing to say to the media

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A PLEA TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS: Fiji Sun will not teach you
The Art of Investigative Journalism and HOLDING POWER TO ACCOUNT, for as you can see from its Coconut Wireless column, they are TOO busy attacking individuals singled out by the Bainimarama/Khaiyum Government to discredit in their paper: