CRYSTAL BALL GAZING INTO THE CHARGES. Prasad claimed to FBC News that his lawyers have spoken to FICAC and rejected any basis of charges. Absurd. Unless the charges were read out to him, how do his lawyers know the nature of the charges? It was most likely after he was tipped off on the impending arrest. He avoided FICAC since last Tuesday, and on Thursday, he narrowly escaped meeting his Political WATERLOO.
*Our cavalry, however, is in hot pursuit of bringing him to justice.
Napoléon Bonaparte: 'Victory belongs to the most persevering.'
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BIMAN PRASAD'S FACEBOOK SUPPORTERS:
*It has been brought to our attention that one Facebook commentator, PRAMESH SHARMA, is calling on new FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali to use her first thirty days in office to thoroughly review all ongoing investigations, seek independent advice, and only proceed with charges when she is fully convinced that legal breaches have occurred.
*Similarly, Sharma continues: In Biman's case, who is the complainant, and if this case proceeds to trial, will the complainant be available in Fiji to testify?
*Is this an abuse of office or just a clarification issue regarding the Declaration of Assets?
Fijileaks to Pramesh Sharma. It's an Abuse of Office and is not merely a clarification issue regarding the declaration of assets. The charges carry a $50,000 fine or ten years imprisonment under the Political Parties Act.
*Biman Prasad lied in his declarations, hid his directorship, lived under the same roof with his wife, Dr Rajni Kaushal Chand, and claimed he was the sole owner of one of the houses until we found that he and his wife were joint owners. How did we find out?
*The couple jointly sold one of the houses to Lotus (Fiji) for $550,000, a company in which he holds 50% of shares with SUNIL CHAND.
*We understand that the original complainant has also lodged complaints against others, but what matters is whether the allegations can stand up to scrutiny.
*In Biman Prasad's case, we are discovering that some of her cases have merit, and we are discovering more every day. We understand that the complainant lodged her case with the Supervisor of Elections in February, and after reviewing Prasad's statutory declarations, the Supervisor of Elections sent the case to FICAC in April.
*Last Thursday, after months of investigation, FICAC was ready to charge Prasad, but other events intervened, and Fiji's Finance Minister escaped, albeit temporarily. FICAC had obtained independent legal advice to begin laying charges against NFP leader and Finance Minister Prasad.
*We take it Sharma has heard of ZOOM. During the Covid lockdown, many criminal trials continued via Zoom.
*After the untimely death of acting DPP David Toganivalu, his replacement, John Rabuku, did not halt the cases against Frank Bainimarama, Sitiveni Qiliho and Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum.
*Two, Bainimarama and Qiliho, are serving prison sentences for trying to halt the criminal investigations into USP.
*Barbara Malimali must allow her FICAC investigators to charge Biman Prasad as was planned last Thursday.
*She can add new charges as we provide FICAC with our findings of falsehoods, omissions, and blatant lies in Prasad's statutory declarations from 2014 to 2024, with Police conducting a separate criminal investigation into his directorship of Lotus (Fiji) Ltd.
*Our investigation reveal that Biman Prasad did not declare that his wife owns two units worth $300,000 (in today's value, maybe $2million) in the Westville Villa complex, owned by Prasad and Sunil Chand.
*Prasad also didn't disclose the two units he bought Off-Plan from Sunil Chand on 12 March 2014, three days before, on 15 March 2014, the two registered Lotus (Fiji) Ltd. Sunil Chand gifted him a 5% share, and the following year, another 45% = 50%.
*Under the Political Parties Act, Prasad is required to declare whether the shares were gift, for he didn't contribute a cent towards the building of the 28 units in Westville, Legalega, Nadi.
LASULASU-JHOOT: Was NFP leader and former USP Professor of Economics and Accountancy Biman Prasad suffering from the onset of dementia in 2014 when he sat down to fill the statutory declaration form? He failed to declare that he jointly owned a house with his wife and USP lecturer, Dr Rajni Kaushal Chand?
*FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali should press on with the charges prepared by her FICAC investigators. It is not 'a political witch hunt' of Biman Prasad.
*He has committed multiple breaches of the Political Parties Act between 2014 and 2024. *Our investigation into his statutory political declarations raise some serious questions, especially since he is not only the Finance Minister but also the FRCA line manager.
*For example, we discovered that he claimed to be the sole proprietor of a house with a Certificate of Title No 11097.
*But according to our search, Biman Prasad and his wife Rajni Kaushal Chand had bought the property in September 2009.
*In his declarations under the Political Parties Act, Prasad kept claiming that he was the sole owner of that property.
*In the 2017 declaration, he merely states: 'CT11907 has been sold.'
*Our investigation revealed that the couple jointly owned it until 2016, when they sold it to Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd on 19 January 2016 for $550,000.
*Biman Prasad is a joint director at Lotus (Fiji) and holds a 50% share of the company.
*Since the couple are vendors, a thorough investigation must be launched by FRCA to establish whether, as vendors, one or both paid the Capital Gains Tax when they sold it to Lotus (Fiji).
*Meanwhile, FICAC must press charges against Prasad regarding the house (CT11907) and other multiple breaches beginning in 2014 and continuing until 2024.
From Fijileaks Archive, 22 September 2014
*BIMAN, GONE ROGUE WITH HIS STATUTORY DECLARATIONS?
On 22 September 2014, when he became NFP leader and parliamentarian, BIMAN PRASAD translated for me from Hindi into English the then FFP MP Ashneel Sudhakar's subtle attack on me for questioning some of his FACEBOOK postings.
MERA SAJINI but when it came to his declarations, World's Apart | 2014: Striding into Parliament with Ashneel Sudhakar not far behind |
