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BANK ACCOUNTS: Fiji regime sets up bank accounts for YOU to donate for Winston victims - let us hope there will be accountability of donations 

22/2/2016

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This family of eight from Nacobau Village were injured after strong winds uprooted their home
and dumped them a few metres away. Source: Fiji Times

International and local donations can be made through the following account:
Bank: Australia New Zealand Banking Corporation
Account Number: 12628523
Account Name:   Prime Minister’s National Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation: Cyclone Winston
Swift Code: ANZ BFJFX
BSB: 010 890

Local donations can be made through the following accounts:
Bank: Westpac Banking Corporation
Account Number: 9806094927
Account Name:  Prime Minister’s National Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation: Cyclone Winston

Bank:  Bank of the South Pacific
Account Number: 80399804
Account Name: Prime Minister’s National Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation: Cyclone Winston

Bank: Home Finance Corporation Bank
Account Number: 17822 s10
Account Name:  Prime Minister’s National Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation: Cyclone Winston


STORMY EXCHANGES: Rajendra Chaudhry's claim that WINSTON was God's Wrath on Bainimarama regime attracts wrath of condemnation:

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Rajendra Chaudhry
1 hr · Auckland, New Zealand · 2016

What an ass!
Good to see the regime's mouthpiece attacking me over my Facebook posts re TC Winston.
Says I am enemy number one of the State! Utters swears on social media whilst holding the law and order chair in Parliament.
Such words from a political driftwood doesn't faze me one bit. I have dealt with and knocked out totally many more credible political opponents than this ass.
Doesn't this idiot realise that the regime he serves under is itself illegal and has no moral or legal basis?
Assneel's posting shows that my and that of others are doing serious damage to the regime - which is now wobbly and struggling to survive. Having plundered the State's finances and borrowed to the hilt the regime will not be able to make any real impact on the repairs required.
Assneel appears to let his emotion rather than logic address my postings on TC Winston and that is that the calamity is the wrath of God on a nation that has become to a large extent ungodly.
Such wrath of God are nothing new and the Bible and other religious scriptures aver to it in their writings. Perhaps Assneel may wish to do some reading on this.
Further Assneel needs to be reminded that his leader is a murderer, a treasonist and a thief who will one day face and the gallows for the offence of treason.
These are facts and no amount of emotional bullshit by Assneel can change such statements of fact.
And next time you post something about someone Assneel then give that person the right to respond. Don't be a bloody coward like your leader!
And it is not I who will rot in hell but your leader and that day is fast approaching boy.


Fijileaks: Since Mahendra Chaudhry did not relocate to Australia after the 2000 failed George Speight coup, nor he returned the money to his shadowy Indian donors, he should DONATE the $2million to
Cyclone Winston victims:

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August 7, 2007

“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 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?”
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.”

CYCLONE AMI RELIEF FUND

Where did thousands of dollars end up?

Victor Lal had based his "Cyclone Ami" article from the following bank statements and had sent Mr Chaudhry a copy for comments but as usual, Mr Chaudhry did not reply to the questions.
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By Victor Lal
August 2007
Fiji Sun


And it was to this bank account that many of us from around the world wholeheartedly responded, in the hope that the money would reach the victims. I had first raised the whereabouts of the Cyclone Ami funds in August 2006, and had sent Mr Chaudhry  a list of questions, to which he is yet to reply.

The ICFI sent to me a detailed account of how much they had collected and distributed to the Cyclone Ami victims. The Congress had provided $300 cash each to ninety-four families to rebuild their homes and provided food parcels to 250 families immediately after the cyclone, it said.

Six members of the Governing Council of ICFI visited Fiji at their own expense and provided assistance. It must be stressed that ICFI’s contribution was independent of Mr Chaudhry and his NFU. GOPIO also confirmed sending its contributions to account number CA 155728.

A perusal of the bank statements relating to CA 155728 anonymously sent to me reveal that a total of $258,287 was deposited into the above account, and $237,196 withdrawn. The question that can be asked of Mr Chaudhry and the NFU, on behalf of the Cyclone Ami victims, is as follows: what was done with $237,196?

In 2003, there was also a deposit of $17,160, and a simultaneous withdrawal of $5,383. Again, if the money was intended for the Cyclone Ami victims why, it could be questioned, the whole sum was not distributed to them? Why was $12,000 not given out to the cyclone victims?

Similarly, for 2003 and 2004, there was a combined deposit of $85,860 and withdrawal of $60,880. Where did this sum end up, it could be asked? If one were to exclude the $5,383 withdrawn in 2003, where did $55,000 end up in 2004 from the account?

Also, has the Cyclone Ami account ever been audited or presented to a general meeting of the NFU? There seems to be no list of beneficiaries who benefited from the collections ever published to any NFU general meeting.

The widely variant sums withdrawn, according to the bank statements, suggest the absence of any method or criteria for distribution to Cyclone Ami victims, if any, at all. The statements also disclose foreign transactions. There are other large cash deposits and withdrawals, raising questions whether some of the sums had been used for other unrelated purposes.

The obvious question is with the Cyclone Ami victims largely rehabilitated shortly after 2003, then why this account no CA 155728 was not wound up?  Why is the money still sitting in the bank? What were the money coming in and the payments being made for three to four years after Cyclone Ami in 2003?

The large and regular withdrawals from mid-2005 to mid 2006 seems to coincide during the 2006 general election? What were the monies used for during this period?

According to reliable bank sources, Mr Chaudhry is allegedly the sole signatory to the Cyclone Ami funds.
The above figures exclude all the donations given to the FLP cause in person by dozens of party well-wishers in Australia, NZ, Canada, US and the UK

After his release from captivity following the 2000 coup, Mr Chaudhry was presented donations totalling $82,394.88 in functions held in his honour as Prime Minister in Canada and the United States during his visit to these countries in September 2000.

The moneys were donated to enable the FLP to pay for legal costs in relation to its High Court challenge on the abrogation of the 1997 Constitution following the Speight coup.

Similarly, we had donated in hundreds to the Cyclone Ami Funds, and therefore have the right to ask questions, and obtain answers from Mr Chaudhry since it was in his name that account number CA155728 was set up in the Bank of Baroda in Suva.

9 Comments
Samjha
22/2/2016 09:38:08 pm

The PMs National Disaster Relief Fund in Fiji has a notorious history of abuse. It has been used for political patronage and propaganda and vote buying.
It's better to fund civil society groups directly engaged in community work.

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Chodri
22/2/2016 09:44:21 pm

And our Leader Chaudhary has left the relief appeal to others this time. He says his detractors are always unfairly critical of him raising very well-intended relief funds for himself.

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sad face
23/2/2016 01:58:31 am

Lets hope that this time the accounts will be audited and accessible to the General public ..How and whom it was spent for

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Ned Kelly
23/2/2016 05:51:06 am

Having it called the PM's National Disaster Relief fund gives it a bad name. Instead of money being donated when there is a natural disaster is short term planning. There should be a fund setup through tax's or levies where money can be tapped immediately to assist. In saying that lies the problem of who manages it etc. and with the current state of accountability leaves this option less to be desired as well. Damn if you do and damn if you don't.

A low cost cyclone proof housing needs to looked at as well to assist people in the Villages. This would assist mitigate the cyclone impacts on peoples homes and lives.

The cyclone has revived the issues surrounding Chaudary's fundraising and the question still needs to be asked "where has the money gone". This leaves Chaudary as leader of the FLP untenable.

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Fiji First Party
23/2/2016 08:48:48 am

This is a severe humanitarian CRISIS.

Politics aside, let’s give Bainimarama and his Government our sincere support. Let us all truly put Fiji First.

Bainimarama has a lot to learn from Chaudhary's past.

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Like father like son
23/2/2016 06:50:30 am

Ahh rajen chaudhry, what can one say. Like father like son. Someone who relies on his father for his survival, even as a 50yr adult, attacking cyclone victims from the cormfort of NZ, where he lives a lavish lifestyle funded from money his dad raised in the name of the poor but decided to pocket.

No one has forgetten that Mahen Chaudhry was the first to support the coup followed by son, as usual hanging on dad's coatails old.Only after Mahen was sacked when secret bank account stink got too strong that rajen turned champion of democracy. Both father and son consummate users and self servers who totally lack self awareness.

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Refugee
23/2/2016 12:49:06 pm

People will rebuild their lives and livelihoods. People will raise and shine and laugh again –for sure!

But the wrath of God which has befallen on Chaudharys’ reputation (as fallen human beings) as Fiji’s ‘celebrity CHORS’ (and that too STEALING from the Poorest of the Poor) can NEVER be redeemed.


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steve
23/2/2016 07:54:49 pm

Besides all these,dont worry-people from Fiji with come back and shine out again.They will come back with the same smiles on the face and same strength to rebuild and move forward.All countries have their share of natural setbacks..its no curse-its Mother Nature

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Like father indeed
24/2/2016 11:11:18 am

well said "Like Father like Son".

This incident indeed reminds us the millions Mahendra Pal Choudhury stole from the rightful owners - the people of Fiji
to whom those funds were given. But instead of fulfilling his
legal duty as a trustee to distribute those funds to the people as beneficiaries,
Choudhury senior stole it. Even of this day he thinks he has done nothing wrong. How on earth such a scum was a former PM and later Finance Minister beggars belief.

And now his son Rajen is enjoying the loot by spending his
lavish lifestyle in NZ and to make matters worse, cursing the people
of Fiji by asserting that the devastation by the cyclone was God's
punishment.

How can these 2 evil father and son ever lay claim on their true allegiance to Fiji. Shame on both. They both give hard working
and true Indians a bad name.

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