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DEFENDING THE CONVICT: FLP turns its fire on Victor Lal instead of asking Mahendra Chaudhry to answer questions - he got money in three instalments - in 2000, 2001 and 2002 while all the time staying in Fiji!

4/3/2016

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Fijileaks: Yes, keep on riding the thieving horse on your convicted father's back and enjoy the $2million he was hiding in the Australian bank account and investing it from your former home address at 47 Bryson St, Sydney! The first payment of $503,000 was deposited into your father's account on 1 November 2000. We do not know the sender from his Tax File; on 22 February 2001, again sender not specified, deposited $486,000 and on 15 April 2002 he received $514,148.50. This was sent via Indian Consulate in Sydney, Australia. So, tell us who sent the first two instalments? It was not the Government of India? Lest you forget the over Half a Million Dollars he was hiding in an New Zealand bank account! Tell us, who is Harbhajan Lal, and where can we FIND HIM? As your father's lawyer Anand Singh had asked Lal in 2008: "I feel it is important to get a statement or verification before Daaku clams up. The admission from Harbhajan is enough to hang Daaku politically... this man [Daaku] is so shameless and ruthless. I don't think he has any scruples about taking the money belonging to the people of Fiji..." Again, if the money was for the Chaudhry clan to relocate to Australia, what were you, your father, your mother, your sister, all doing in Fiji; you only left for Australia after running foul with the authorities? And they are still living in FIJI!

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A copy of Mahendra Chaudhry's tax file

Why didn't he ask INDIA to stop the poor from donating when he had not relocated to Australia? The first payment of $503,000 was deposited into his account on 1 November 2000. We do not know the sender from his Tax File; on 22 February 2001, again sender not specified, deposited $486,000 and on 15 April 2002 he received $514,148.50. This was sent via Indian Consulate in Sydney. Chaudhry never relocated to Australia but in September 2001, the FLP led by him, narrowly lost the election to SDL's Laisenia Qarase. What did he do with the money? He INVESTED it! When FRCA cornered him in 2004 he offered a letter from one Harbhajan Lal to explain the source of the $2million but when he was charged, he and his lawyer Anand Singh presented a letter from Delhi Support Group; the infamous "Harbhajan Lal Letter' was never tendered to court to support his claim. Was Harbhajan Lal letter FAKE to hoodwink FRCA? Victor Lal disclosed the $2million (as Fiji Sun headline read) based on the Harbhajan Lal letter that is in Chaudhry's tax file. There is no Delhi Support Group letter!

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"Dear Uncle. I ran into Rajendra Chaudhry on Marks Street this afternoon. He told me that Russell Hunter will be deported out of Fiji tomorrow morning." Ben Padarath to Victor Lal, 24 February 2008

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"The following day, 25 February, while driving home from work at about 8pm, I received a call on my cell phone from an acquaintance who informed me that Mr Chaudhry’s son, Rajendra, had been telling people that I would be out of the country by the following Wednesday. My partner and I were discussing this when two men arrived at our house claiming to be from the department of immigration...The departmental representative asked me to go with him to his office to ‘arrange the formalities’, but when he could not or would not say what these formalities might be I declined to go, pointing out that the order gave me seven days to leave and that I intended to comply with it. On his repeated insistence that I accompany him, I began to call the company lawyer. Almost immediately, four or five people – obviously military but unarmed and out of uniform – burst into the compound calling ‘let’s go now’, ‘hurry up’, ‘get in the vehicle’ and so forth. One even brought my shoes from the porch. ‘Don’t waste our time’, shouted the driver of the waiting twin-cab ‘just get in the vehicle’. They told my wife and the company lawyer that they were taking me to their office in Suva. So, crammed into the rear of the twin-cab between two burly soldiers, I was whisked off into the night. It soon became plain that the destination was not Suva but Nadi, the site of the international airport. My mobile phone was taken from me a minute or so into the journey and, on arriving in Nadi, I was held in isolation at a house in Cawa Street until the next morning, when a different group of four soldiers took me to the airport. The Fiji Sun has been able to identify the Suva-based army captain who escorted me to Air Pacific flight FJ911 bound for Sydney. I was wearing the clothes I had been wearing when abducted the night before. I had next to no money with me. Meanwhile, the Fiji Sun lawyer, some good friends and the Australian High Commission had been active. High Commissioner James Batley’s repeated demands for consular access to me was met with a wall of silence from officials, all of whom denied knowledge of my whereabouts. Our lawyer, sensing what was going on, had arranged for an early morning court sitting, at which he was granted an injunction preventing the state from removing me from the country. It was ignored. The familiar denials followed. This was an exercise carried out solely by the immigration department with no military involvement whatsoever, it was alleged: The chief executive officer of the Fiji Sun had been deported because he was a threat to national security based on ‘credible’ evidence. This evidence has never been produced, although there was a hint that an illegally hacked email exchange between myself and Lal proved the case. The mail in question had been obtained by a disgruntled former employee who appears to have sold it to a third party. It also reached Nikhil Singh in Sydney, an ex-Fiji TV reporter and now FLP mouthpiece employed by the journalists’ trade union, which, as part of its mission statement, is sworn to uphold media freedom. Singh emailed the material to the Fiji and the regional media, most representatives of which regarded it as a typical exchange between a reporter and publisher and ignored it as irrelevant. The notable exceptions were Fiji TV and the government radio station." - Russell Hunter, Extract, The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji.

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From left: Rajendra Chaudhry, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu and Nikhil Singh
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According to documents in Mahendra Chaudhry's Tax File, only one lot of money - $514,148.50 (15 April 2002) - was transferred via the Indian Consulate in Sydney. Who or which organization had transferred the other two instalments? We should not forget that he was neither in India or Australia but had led Fiji Labour Party into the 2001 general election!

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Perjury probe request in Mahendra Chaudhry’s affidavit before Justice Daniel Goundar in the Fiji High Court and call for other criminal investigations arising out of Mr Chaudhry’s income tax file

By VICTOR LAL and RUSSELL HUNTER, September 2012

Fiji High Court judge Justice Daniel Goundar made two declarations of interest to us in Chaudhry v State [2012] FJHC 1229; HAM034.2011 (25 July 2012).
Justice Goundar on anti-government websites and Victor Lal’s tax story Let us take Justice Goundar’s second observation first.

After the military coup in 2006, the applicant returned to the political arena as the Minister of Finance in the interim government of Fiji. The applicant says, what followed after his ministerial appointment, was a trial by media. The applicant says he later found out that a former editor of the Fiji Sun obtained his confidential tax details from FIRCA and released it to Victor Lal, a former Fiji journalist residing overseas. Victor Lal published those details in anti-government websites (our emphasis underlined)

Response to Affidavit Content: Manifestly False, re Victor Lal and Russell Hunter

(A): It is manifestly false for Mr Chaudhry to claim in his affidavit (and uncritically repeated by Justice Goundar in his judgment) that Victor Lal had published his (Mr Chaudhry’s) tax details in anti-government websites.

(B): Fragmentary details of Mr Chaudhry’s tax records were first published in the Fiji Sun of 15 August 2007 and full details in the Sunday Sun of 24 February 2008.  This led to the deportation of Fiji Sun and Sunday Sun editor in chief and publisher Russell Hunter the next day, 25 February, from Fiji.

We recommend you to obtain copies of the two editions from the Fiji Sun head office in Suva which will support our contention of the falsity in Mr Chaudhry’s affidavit before Justice Goundar in the Fiji High Court in Suva.

Perjury in False Affidavit, Abuse of Office, and Aiding and Abetting Perjury
 
To summarize, Justice Goundar observed in Chaudhry v State [2012]  FJHC 1229; HAM034.2011 (25 July 2012):
 
“The applicant says he later found out that a former editor of the Fiji Sun obtained his confidential tax details from FIRCA and released it to Victor Lal, a former Fiji journalist residing overseas. Victor Lal published those details in anti-government websites.” We have demonstrated that we never published Mr Chaudhry’s tax details in any anti-government websites but in the Sunday Sun dated 24 February 2008, including the first tax story in the Fiji Sun, on 15 August 2007.

1: We therefore call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigative whether Mr Chaudhry committed the offence of “perjury in a false affidavit”.

2: We call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate whether Mr Chaudhry’s legal representatives in offering his affidavit to the Fiji High Court are also guilty of aiding and abetting the offence of perjury in a false affidavit, for it is abundantly clear that we did not publish Mr Chaudhry’s tax details in any anti-government websites.

3: We request the Director of Public Prosecutions to establish on what grounds the original letter tendered from one Harbhajan Lal dated 9 September 2004 to FIRCA from Haryana in India was withheld [if it was] and a new letter from Delhi Study Group dated 12 October 2004 substituted in Mr Chaudhry’s affidavit before Justice Daniel Goundar in the Fiji High Court.

The “Harbhajan Lal Letter” of 9 September 2004 states the money was collected in Haryana and part of it was transacted through the Indian Consulate in Sydney, Australia. Harbhajan Lal wrote from Haryana:“Respected Chaudhry Saheb, Nameste. We are hale and hearty here and please accept our good wishes. I received your letter. You have asked for details of the funds. You may recall that when you were here in the year 2000, we had formed a committee, which requested you to leave Fiji and stay in Australia since the situation in Fiji was not safe and you were not secure there. The committee also assured you that it would collect funds for your settlement in Australia.Lakhs of people from Haryana including traders, businessmen, landlords and non-resident Indians contributed heavily for the cause. The amount was pouring in for three years, which was sent to you from the year 2000 to 2002. The total amounting to nearly AUD fifteen laks was sent to you with the help of Government of India through its Consulate General in Sydney. We sent AUD 503,000/- as first instalment in the year 2000. In 2001, AUD $486,890/- was sent and then in 2002 AUD $514, 149/- was sent.”

The “Delhi Study Group Letter” states, “This is to confirm that funds were collected in New Delhi and other parts of India, including NRI's (Non-Resident Indians) to assist Hon'ble Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, Former Prime Minister of Fiji in 2000-2002.”

4: We call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to ask Mr Chaudhry who transferred the money from India – Delhi Study Group based in New Delhi or Harbahajan Lal in Haryana, India?

5: We request the Director of Public Prosecutions to establish whether Mr Chaudhry and Nalin Patel, in presenting to FIRCA the letter from Harbhjan Lal, whose content was materially false [re his enquiring the details of the funds etc] –Chaudhry (and Nalin Patel) committed a criminal offence under Fiji’s tax laws by offering a false document to FIRCA, namely the Harbhajan Lal letter.

6: We request the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate the Suva accountancy firm of G. Lal & Co, Mr Chaudhry’s delegated tax agent to deal with FIRCA in 2004, to establish whether it was aware of the inconsistencies in the Harbhajan Lal-Chaudhry correspondence regarding the $2million, and whether the accountancy firm also had in its possession the Delhi Support Group letter dated 12 October 2004.

7: We request the Director of Public Prosecutions to establish whether Mr Chaudhry and Nalin Patel submitted Harbhajan Lal’s letter knowing its content was false in material respects to prevent FIRCA from pursuing the original source of the funds in Mr Chaudhry’s Australian bank account.

8: We request the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigative whether Mr Chaudhry, in presenting the Tax Amnesty submission to the Cabinet in September 2007 for endorsement, might have abused office as Interim Finance Minister and direct line manager of Fiji Island Revenue and Customs Authority (FIRCA), to benefit himself, and to escape any future criminal prosecutions for submitting late tax returns between 2000 and 2003.We have documentary evidence that in August 2007 Mr Chaudhry still owed FIRCA $57,000 in tax debt, due to be paid on 9 August 2007. His own $57,000 could have fitted into insufficient advance payment or even late payment amnesty.

9. We therefore request the DPP to establish whether Mr Chaudhry had taxes or returns outstanding and paid during the amnesty period he had ordered and hence gained avoidance of penalties, and if so, then a case for Abuse of Office as Finance Minister and line manager of FIRCA could be made against him.

10: We call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to plead with the Fiji High Court to expunge the patently false claims made against us in Chaudhry v State [2012] FJHC 1229; HAM034.2011 (25 July 2012) – re that we published Mr Chaudhry’s tax details in anti-government websites.

11. In conclusion, we leave you with the words of the great English judge, the late Lord Denning in King v Victor Parsons & Co [1973] 1 WLR 29, 33-34:

“The word 'fraud' here is not used in the common law sense. It is used in the equitable sense to denote conduct by the defendant or his agent such that it would be 'against conscience' for him to avail himself of the lapse of time. The cases show that, if a man knowingly commits a wrong (such as digging underground another man's coal); or a breach of contract (such as putting in bad foundations to a house), in such circumstances that it is unlikely to be found out for many a long day, he cannot rely on the Statute of Limitations as a bar to the claim: see Bulli Coal Mining Co v Osborne [1899] AC 351 and Applegate v Moss [1971] 1 QB 406. In order to show that he 'concealed' the right of action 'by fraud', it is not necessary to show that he took active steps to conceal his wrongdoing or breach of contract. It is sufficient that he knowingly committed it and did not tell the owner anything about it. He did the wrong or committed the breach secretly. By saying nothing he keeps it secret. He conceals the right of action. He conceals it by 'fraud' as those words have been interpreted in the cases. To this word 'knowingly' there must be added recklessly': see Beaman v ARTS Ltd [1949] 1 KB 550, 565-566. Like the man who turns a blind eye. He is aware that what he is doing may well be a wrong, or a breach of contract, but he takes the risk of it being so. He refrains from further inquiry least it should prove to be correct: and says nothing about it. The court will not allow him to get away with conduct of that kind. It may be that he has no dishonest motive: but that does not matter. He has kept the plaintiff out of the knowledge of his right of action: and that is enough: see Kitchen v Royal Air Force Association [1958] 1 WLR 563.”
 
The limitation statute’s aim is to prevent citizens from being oppressed by stale claims, to protect settled interests from being disturbed, to bring certainty and finality to disputes and so on. These are, as legal commentators have pointed out, laudable aims but they can conflict with the need to do justice in individual cases where an otherwise unmeritorious defendant can play the limitation trump card and escape liability.
 
We call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to ask Mr Chaudhry which of the two letters – Harbhajan Lal or Delhi Study Group – is the lie – as they both can’t be genuine. Apart from the false accusations against us in his affidavit, the contents of the Harbhajan Lal letter dated 9 September 2004 does not accord with his bank statements from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia which he offered to FIRCA.
 
In our humble submission we beg the Director of Prosecutions to call upon the Fiji High Court to waiver the statute of limitation for prima facie there is evidence in the “Harbhajan Lal” letter that Mr Chaudhry obtained a favourable decision from FIRCA (an oversight on the part of FIRCA tax officers) through alleged fraud – the contents of the Harbhajan Lal letter does not square with his Australian bank statements.
 
Moreover, although we do not have a copy of Mr Chaudhry’s affidavit cited by Jutsice Goundar (despite requests for one from the Director of the Public Prosecutions) we call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to examine the contents of both the Harbhajan Lal and the Delhi Support Group letters.  If there are glaring disparities in the two letters than Mr Chaudhry must be deprived of the statute of limitation for the “fraud”, if any on his part, would be a continuing “fraud” since 2004 when he first offered Harbhajan Lal’s letter and now the Delhi Study Group letter in 2012 to explain away the $2million is his Australian bank account.

VICTOR LAL and RUSSELL HUNTER, 4 September 2012

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From Fijileaks archive: "So, when we produced these positive articles on Mahendra Chadhury and Rajendra Chaudhry's claims,
"WE WERE NOT BARKING UP WRONG TREE":

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http://www.fijileaks.com/home/judge-exposed-mahendra-chaudhry-provides-confidential-documents-from-dpp-prosecutor-to-prove-justice-madigans-secret-role-in-tax-case

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http://www.fijileaks.com/home/2

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http://www.fijileaks.com/home/the-chaudhry-trial-rajendra-chaudhry-slams-justice-paul-madigan-for-directing-that-an-application-for-stay-pending-appeal-by-mahendra-chaudhry-will-not-be-accepted-by-the-fiji-high-court-criminal-registry

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17 Comments
Chiku
5/3/2016 01:28:47 am

The Fiji Labor Party started as a people's political party established to challenge the status quo under the Alliance government's rule and the entrenched elitist interests it served and represented.
That's at the time of Dr Timoci Bavadra's leadership. Since Mahendra Chaudry's takeover of leadership the FLP has steadily degenerated into Chaudhry and his cronies party. Now the FLP basically belongs to Chaudhry and his hanger ons sing and dance to his ( their ) master's tune. Hence it is not surprising that instead of questioning the money he obtained under false pretence Chaudhry's chamchas are maliciously attacking Victor Lal. Chaudhry has a long history of manipulating his chamchas to attack his opponents, many of whom have left the FLP over the years because of their disenchantment with his authoritarianism leadership.

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Jack
5/3/2016 04:11:16 am

I have been saying for years, ALL monies that were donated/collected in overseas countries were channeled to India first, then transferred to Australia making it look like that it was collected in India. Ask the Banks in India to show each and every deposit that was made, it will show a trail where it came from unless they took cash and changed into Indian currency first.

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Refugee
5/3/2016 08:53:27 am

Mahen Chaud daaku has paid a MILLION dollar Fine - He is a Million Dollar Fined Criminal sala Convict - (maybe a record Fine in Fiji's Criminal Case history) and who once refused even a grain of rice and dhal to the poor refugees.

How the days have turned and how the Refugees today are laughing at this CONVICTED criminal MP Chaudhary (the daaku).

Thank you Victor Lal for republishing this story and please do so every now and then lest we forget Mahen Chaud - the daaku.

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Dnul
5/3/2016 12:34:48 pm

Time to give this broken record a rest fijileaks. He has paid his dues to the government more than enough. If you really have balls, ask qarase to assist with the millions he and his cronies crooked from extinct mataqali accounts. In contrast to Chaudharys money, the one siphoned by qarase and his crook band was Fijian money. While you are at it, also ask all those rascals who stole in millions from nbf to return the money to be used in rebuilding Fiji. Now that was all our hard earned money that was taken from us by some proud daku's. Chaudhary at least did not rob his own countryman. Qarase, his cronies and the nbf crooks robbed us in broad daylight and not a single poke from you Victor. Soooo wrong.....

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Victor Lal
5/3/2016 03:29:09 pm

Bula Dnul

You can say whatever you like. As far as I am concerned, this man denied he received a single cent from India, and in his desire to make sure it remained hidden from the public, he conspired with his then buddy Baimarama and Khaiyum to get Russell Hunter kidnapped, detained and deported out of Fiji. And even now, he is spitting in our face and giving us - through FLP website, TWO FINGERS!

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Ratu Don
5/3/2016 11:05:44 pm

Revenge never takes anyone towards prosperity. Your reply to Dnul is an indication that the continuous berating of Chaudhary stems from the treatment that was dished out to your friend hunter by Fijian military. Every human being has faults and Chaudhary is no exception. The ones that are the real evil are riding high and mighty without scrunity as we are debating about a non-issue and a nobody in the current Fiji. As you said above, it doesn't look like that you are going to give Chaudhary issue a rest nor will you pursue other crooks mentioned in the Dnul posts for whatever reasons. The only thing that I have to say is that Chaudhary has nothing more to lose but Fiji has everything to lose by letting go some master crooks and goons.

Truth-only
5/3/2016 11:46:11 pm

Dnul,what about Mahen approving the illegal payout of Bainimarama's leave. Is that not robbing the taxpayers of this country to pay a fool...........in your face budy

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Disasters Remind Us of Traitors
6/3/2016 03:25:51 am

He indeed ROB his own countrymen as he disguised use of the acquired money by creating Valelawa Evicted Farmers Camp.

Rations he supplied were about $15/week like the ones Indians get after every disaster by Government and Red Cross Team if at all.

Remember one Valelawa resident almost punched Mahenwa after he realised Chaudhry CONNED them to the camp although they still had some years of lease still left to expire.

Running a victims camp as evicted farmers camp maybe was to seek funding from Indians across globe.

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Chori ke phal
5/3/2016 01:09:16 pm

Victor you are barking up the right tree. Please carry on. Mahen chaud not only used FLP and plight of Fiji's poor to enrich himself and his family, he supported a coup to cover up his crime. He has been convicted for the financial wrongdoing not for coup. Keep up the good work Victor. Keep refreshing our memories about the wolf in sheep skin Mahen. It's because of the awareness you created that FLP did not win a seat. That's why they hate you.

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rajend naidu
5/3/2016 06:34:25 pm

Editor,
ROGUE LEADERS And ABUSE OF POWER
Rogue leaders use their position to amass wealth and engage in dirty politics to assert their power and influence.
Here's an example.
We learn from Brian Whitmore's article ' Making the World Safe for Dictators ' ( Radio Free Europe 4/03 ) that almost immediately after a ceasefire brokered by Russia and the US kicked in this week in Syria, Moscow began to re-escalating the conflict in eastern Ukraine. It was cynical and predictable. It's happened before.
... Putin wants a world without rules,one where might makes right; one divided into spheres of influence in which great powers decide the fates of small nations.
And Putin wants to MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DICTATORS - whether they are Serbia's Milossevic, Ukraine's Yanukoych or Syria's Assad or...
It means propping up autocrats, like Assad.
" Kremlin policy envisions a global struggle between sovereignity and outside interference while the West prefers casting it as a clash between democracy and authoritarian", political commentator Ivan Krastev head of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, wrote recently.
This might go some way in explaining the recent generous Russian arms shipment to Fiji which only recently emerged from 8 years of military dictatorship and which according to its own intellectual defender Crosbie Welsh is still a fragile democracy .
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Samjha
5/3/2016 09:29:58 pm

It's not hard to see why Rajendra Chaudhary asserts " the Indian monies were for Chaudhary and for his own use and benefit. End of story". The monies went to Chaudhary senior , his father, and Rajendra benefited from his father's I'll- gotten monies. Rajendra would love to see the end of this sordid story of abuse of political position by his father because the lingering bad smell from it is TOO MUCH for him to stomach.
That's too bad for him.
It remains a public interest story and that's why Fijileaks keeps a spotlight on it.
The story also contains a cautionary tale : the public should not trust politicians unquestioningly.

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Like father like son
5/3/2016 09:52:47 pm

Rajen chaudhry has been a major beneficiary of daddy Mahen's loot, used to buy a house in Sydney, live a life of luxury overseas, eating fancy food and drinking expensive beer; just look at his Facebook; where is all the money coming from while rajen was unemployed? The loot was used to invest in rajend's law firm. The most troubled of the chaudhry offspring with drinking and marital problems has always relied on daddy to look after him, with job at FLP, which is effectively the chaudhry clans party, then daddy's private secretary when he was PM, then sports council board member when daddy aided and and abetted bainimarama coup and became finance minister in order to cover up his stealing.

Rajendra turned feral after his dad was kicked out of the bainarama government. He is trying to start a race war using indigenous Fijians. Rajens madness only intensified when dad was convicted of tax evasion. The $1 million fine really cut deep. Then FLP lost the election, which made rajen even crazier. He has lashed out at Indo-Fijians, mocking and abusing them, and laughing at the plight of cyclone Winston victims, especially farmers who rejected FLP at the polls.

So the father robs the farmers and the son laughs at them when they are suffering - after making millions using their name to raise funds.

You will not find a more ungrateful and dastardly father-son combination. It is in the genes.

Victor I hope you publish this in the public interest as Baap-beta need to exposed for what they so that they can never fool the public again.

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Chiku
5/3/2016 11:03:12 pm

A very concise recapitulation of the abuse of the people of Fiji perpetrated by the Chaudhary - father and son. Yes, the abuse needs to be published and the abusers exposed so that they and other politicians - similarly inclined - cannot fool the public again. I hope.

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Fiji ke Robin Hood
6/3/2016 12:54:47 am

Dnul, I was among those who contributed when Mahen came to Australia with a begging bowl. To date I have no idea where the money went. One of the master crooks and goon you are talking about is none other than mahenwa himself.

Like the false prophet, he was a false champion of the poor. The Robin Hood persona was a mask used to enrich the chaudhry clan at the expense of the poor. You are cunningly trying to conflate chaudhry's sordid dealings with other criminal acts in order to disguise his wrongs but it won't work. I'm sure Victor is too smart to be fooled by your tricks. Victor is a true journalist with bulldog tenacity. He knows a public interest story when he sees one and he won't let go. Victor has been exposing other corrupt acts but the problem with you is that you can only see the chaudhry exposure. You must be a relative, or FLP hanger on who benefited from Mahen's largess. Mahen is known to be generous to sychophants. Anyway, your feeble, transparent and obvious strategy to divert attention away from Mahen won't work. The story is here to stay for a long time - until chorwa fronts up with audited accounts.

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splashViti
6/3/2016 09:17:40 am

Some years ago I visited a notorious prison which was overflowing with inmates - many who've been languishing there for years without due process... and I remember being struck by a Mark Twain quote printed in big letters on a signboard over the door of the interrogation room that read: "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything".

Due process?! Things couldn't get more straightforward than that, in that little corner of the world at least. The oft quoted biblical phrase immediately came to mind, "and the Truth shall set you free". Yeah right I thought, not in this place for sure!

But seriously, as a believer (though an imperfect one but who loves her faith and the "very attainable and timeless ideals" that she teaches), that biblical phrase literally rings true.

Does that make sense...?

Perhaps not, so let me put it another way. I could not ever advocate for anything other than due process that every person is entitled to... but I wonder though if Fijians implicated in political corruption of some form of another (not just those discussed in this thread) would consider gaining for themselves that elusive peace of mind and a sense of "real freedom" if they would simply tell the truth. As it is. Not wrapped in niceties, esp. in and for a country that they all still love, but is in transition to genuine democracy.

For those insisting on being told the truth, nothing but the bare truth, perhaps we could consider that people can often be driven to drastic measures out of a sense of insecurity or hopelessness (whether real or imagined, but nonetheless valid from their perspective)... and are often too proud to admit the truth about their insecurity that drove them to do what they did in the first place. So it's that "pride" (and we each have it, though in varying degrees) that needs to be countered by a generous dose of "humility". How?

Well, I suggest the first step is by realising and acknowledging our place in the scheme of things: "that we are nothing fancy but are mere creatures first and foremost", endowed with reason and intelligence since we are made in the image and likeness of our Creator.

That calls for "an overriding and humbling sense of responsibility" to our Creator (by taking care of our environment, animals, sea creatures, insects and birds entrusted to our care (esp. since we're the "top creatures" endowed with reason and intelligence), AND of neighbour... and we all can see that trait so clearly instinctive, in the manner in which people (both inside Fiji and outside) reacted in the immediate aftermath of TC Winston... Can't that sense of responsibility to those like you, your neighbour, be replicated in truth-telling that would go along way to finding longterm solutions for Fiji and real healing...?









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Lelo
6/3/2016 09:29:21 am

Dnul don't say mahenwa has nothing to lose. He has been exposed as crook. His reputation and that of the chaudhry khandan is in tatti and tatters.

But then, as someone pointed out, you can name but you can't shame a besaram so maybe you are right the besaram is not losing any sleep over this. He is still laughing all the way to the bank with the haul he made. His son rajenwa is certainly living it up overseas.

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Dame
7/3/2016 03:54:28 am

I for one very much appreciate the spotlight on this one. It is horrible to see the son try to stir up a race war in Fiji using his very limited intellect. He is lacking in so many departments, and to watch him attempt to use others to do his dirty work would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. It is good that you expose him, but I would also like to see recognition for the heroes who fought the good fight to expose what happened, and bring the case to court. I am not talking about the government but ordinary people in Fiji who kept up the good fight to expose this family of inbred chors.

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