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Chopper Scam: Regime forced Fiji Development Bank to give $21million unsecured loan to Frank's rugby pal Dan Lobendahn and  accused scam artist Graeme Hedge to buy three HeliPro Fiji choppers grazing our skies 

29/8/2013

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Fiji Development Bank CEO Deve Toganivalu yet to admit or deny loan scam claims

And HeliPro Fiji & Emergency Helicopter Services Ltd owned by same individuals - so how can the two companies have gone into partnership for Government contracts?
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HeliPro Fiji Directors

Daniel Lobendahn
Peter Howard
Michael Charles Barbieri
Geoffrey Lewis Hedge
Peter Anthony Schollary
Secretary: Graham Edward Hedge

Registered: 10 August 2012
"I, Daniel Lobendahn, of 10 Fletcher Rd, Suva, do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am the person named in the Articles of Association as a director of HeliPro Fiji Ltd and that all the requirements of the Companies Act, in respect of matters precedent to the registration of the said company and incidental thereto have been complied with".
Emergency Helicopter Services Directors

Daniel Lobendahn
Peter Howard
Michael Charles Barbieri
Carl Harvie Probert
Joeli Taoi
Phillip Michael Chew

Secretary: Graham Edward Hedge
Registered: 29 November 2012
"I, Daniel Lobendahn of 10 Fletcher Rd, Suva, do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am the person named in the Articles of Association as a director of EMERGENCY HELICOPTER SERVICES LTD and that all the requirements of the Companies Act, in respect of matters precedent to the registration of the said company and incidental thereto have been complied with".

"We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company [Emergency Helicopter Services Ltd] in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association: Daniel Leslie Lobendahn, Tiresa Lobendahn, Peter Charles William Howard, Mark Komaitai Fitzalan Howard (Swimming Coach), Rebekah Margret Esiteri Mue Soko, Julian Solia Pareti, and Ratu Aca Simolo Kamavakarua Vulaidausiga, trainee engineer", 19 November 2012
Fijileaks Editor: HeliPro Fiji choppers country manager Graeme Hedge refuses to update us on status of his 2010 charge of obtaining money by false pretenses

$20,000 bail for Australian businessman
Fiji Sun, June 22, 2010 

Written By : LUSIA BRENNANl.

An Australian businessman has been charged with obtaining money by false pretense and appeared at the High Court in Suva yesterday. Graeme Hedge was finally released on a cash bail of $20,000 by Justice Sithambarampillai Thurairaja after the court found that there had been no strong objection to bail by the prosecution. Hedge was charged at the Magistrates Court and refused bail. He is alleged to have falsely duped an Indian company, Dharampal Satyapal Limited, and defrauded them of F$400,000 by falsely pretending that he could supply sandalwood to India. Hedge allegedly committed the fraud through false advertisements on the internet. While applying for bail, Hedge told the High Court he was not a flight risk, had no previous convictions, had considerable assets in Fiji and was willing to provide a suitable surety for the court. Hedge also said he had millions of dollars invested in Fiji and his wife and two children were all living in Fiji.
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14 Comments
Coup Waiter
29/8/2013 09:46:31 am

It is clear as daylight why these crooks want total immunity for all their crimes - murder, treason, embezzlement, fraud, you name it, they have committed it.

Me thinks it is time these lot were deposed, and before 6 September when the illegal President will sign the Constitution containing immunity into law.

There is enough evidence to put them immediately on TRIAL and to send them to Naboro. Wake Up Fiji!

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shalindra singh
10/4/2021 10:15:34 am

u fools hav bin conned by bullshit british all along

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Joji Waqa link
29/8/2013 03:33:09 pm

We have been hoodwinked left, right and centre with these people. We have been taken for a ride with all the corruption and mismanagement allegations directed towards anybody they see fit to. And the dangerous thing about all these is that we gave them the freedom to do all they want in whatever way they want to. We gave justifications to their actions by our silence. We who call ourselves Fijians stand idly by watching all that is unfolding before us and say that it is all for the best. In our own small worlds we say to ourselves that it is none of our business so why do we have to bother. But then we forget in our small worlds that the world itself is round. We decide our fate by our actions and in-actions. Our actions or otherwise of today will be our destiny tomorrow. And at the end of our lives on judgement day, we will all be judged accordingly on whether we stood for the best or we stood for the truth.

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shalindra singh
10/4/2021 10:17:49 am

true

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ululala
30/8/2013 01:42:32 pm

there is thousands of people reading Fiji Leaks - understanding the situation the country is going through and is not commenting as fear of being harass from the military.........
well done Fiji Leaks keep on updating us!!
WANANAVUUUUUUUUUUU

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Fijileaks Editor
30/8/2013 03:27:02 pm

Vinaka, Ululala

Many are expressing their private views to the Editor! And, yes, from our statisticis, thousands are visiting the site every day!

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Sky's the limit for scammers
2/9/2013 10:04:32 pm

When will FICAC look into these scammers? Or are they partners in crime through their deliberate omission? Yet another...

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The Hedge Fund derived from robbing others
23/10/2013 08:41:10 pm

I think the next victim of this notorious thieving gang of thieves being the Hedge family partnered with Scollarry, Barbieri and Vinod Chand will be Dan Lobendahn as I believe that the $21m was not the actual purchase of the helicopters and funds have been diverted to the Hedge Fund in Australia and as soon as the gang are sick of playing this game they will move on leaving Dan Lobendahn to carry the can. If history repeats itself and with the stupidity of the Hedge brothers and their dim witted blond partner Carolyn Francis Hedge these guys will secure loans against all company assets and again divert the money and as FDB have no security of the $21m loan Hedge will be free to perform this scam again as he has done so many times before. BEWARE DAN LOBENDAHN you are in the Hedge crosshairs as I notice you are a director of the potentially financially doomed company but you are not a shareholder.

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Donald Wilson
5/8/2014 04:56:13 pm

Old boys from Marist...

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Donald Wilson
5/8/2014 04:58:54 pm

I have been looking get a loan like that Old Boys..now you ruined for me...

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JDFIJI
21/11/2014 06:23:48 pm

I hear Graeme Hedge is lying Helipro customers by telling fiji media his Helipro company is not effected by mother company Helipro New Zealand now bankrupt even though all assets belonging to Helipro are being sold including his Helicopter.Now we here that a new company Helico plans to take over Helipro and have same old owner running it behind the scenes.This just gets more cloak and dagger each day passes . Can anyone tell us how Graeme Hedge is CEO of Helipro Fiji while he is wanted for serious debts owing from his previous company Austpacific Industries fiji by the liquidators? How is he running Helipro fiji while he is on bail for fraud and theft charges?How will he run Helipro when Graeme Hedge is sent to jail for his crimes in next few months in fiji?Maybe Graeme Hedge you can tell us how you are going to do all this while your in a prison cell in fiji?Hedge is playing to Fiji people and media that he is the angel saving people with Helipro helicopters while deep down inside he is just trying to hide his tru identity of being a master scammer and thief and pocketing profits from Helipro that should be used to pay victims he has scammed from his previous bankrupt company .Maybe Hedge is pretending to be a good guy to blind the court in not convicting him .either way fiji you havenot heard the end of Graeme Hedge and the real story behind Helipro fiji.Fait awaits you Hedge wananavuuuuuuuuuuuu

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sneh lata
10/3/2015 07:04:19 pm

wow

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SJ
12/3/2016 05:51:30 am

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Raj Pal
22/8/2021 01:41:55 pm

Dan lobendahn involves putting up surety for people facing criminal matters and demands money later

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