*The Chief Registrar Tomasi Bainivalu is clearly heard relaying the then acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo's instruction, as illustrated by T4F.

*SUVA lawyer AMANI BALE who was part of a team of lawyers who negotiated the then newly appointed FICAC Commissioner Malimali's release from FICAC's custody on 5 September 2024 claims:
"Mr [Wylie] Clarke introduced himself together with Ms Laurel Vaurasi as LAWYERS for Ms Malimali."
*Meanwhile, Malimali in her sworn affidavit claims she called Wylie Clarke and asked him to call others to rescue her from FICAC.
"The last person to call me was the President of the Fiji Law Society, Mr Wylie Clarke. Mr Clarke had called me on a Digicel number beginning with 7 so I just called that number. Mr Clarke answered the call and I told him that I had been arrested by my own officers and if he could call the Chief Registrar and I think I also said to call the Commissioner of Police. I asked Mr Clarke to come over and assist me."

CONFUSION REIGNS but who was Malimali's lawyer on 5 September? *Perjury in a False Affidavit? *Based on affidavits on us, there is blatant contradiction between the affidavits of lawyer Amani Bale which expressly states that Wylie Clarke introduced himself and Laurel Vaurasi as lawyers for Malimali. *Clarke says he was not Malimali's lawyer and Laurel Vaurasi says they were representing the Fiji Law Society. ​Vaurasi says or rather implies that Bale and Nemani Tuifagalele were the defense lawyers for Barbara Malimali. *Hopefully, His Lordship David Ashton-Lewis will have provided the required clarity in the COI Report

GOTCHA: Fijian schoolchildren are drawing imaginary cartoon of Malimali's 5 September 2024 arrest when she turned up for work

"I asked to make a call to my lawyer. I called Mr Wylie Clarke, the President of the Fiji Law Society and asked him to call others." Malimali in her sworn affidavit to the COI

*We await for His Lordship's final verdict on the contradictory affidavits

The Legal Power Couple in Fiji

COOK Islands Connection: A-G Graham Leung with Rokoika and her husband Ratu Tevita (alias Tangaroa) Vakalalabure in Cook Islands

COOKING UP A NEW IDENTITY IN Fiji, Ratu Tevita Vakalalabure JUNIOR?

*A lawyer who was struck off 12 years ago for drink driving has been given another chance.

Husband and wife, Tevita Tangaroa Vakalalabure (left) and Lavi Rokoika were both sworn in at the High Court on Tuesday, 4 October 2022

*In April 2025, Malimali and Fotofili closed Prasad's case, citing that he was not required to declare his superannuation and that he had declared his shares and had confirmed not receiving any dividends from Lotus (Fiji) and Lotus Tours and Travel, a separate entity associated with Prasad. (Editor: Malimali and Fotofili had based their decision to close the Biman File after assessing the two complaints that were filed by Alex Forwood, Sydney, Australia). The two chose to ignore Fijileaks complaints filed with scores of supporting documents, including that Biman Prasad did not disclose that his wife was a TRUSTEE of the Global Girmit Institute. Under the Act, Prasad was required to declare that his wife Dr Rajni Kaushal Chand of USP held a position such as a trustee in any organisation - Global Girmit Institute.
*In one of the most outlandish legal twists, Prasad's lawyer and NFP stalwart Richard Naidu, through an Australian KC, tried to argue with FICAC that as party leader their client did not have to declare an iota of information in the statutory declaration. Naidu should hand Prasad to FICAC to be charged for prolifically lying as an NFP election candidate in his statutory declarations.
*WHO MUST DECLARE, Richard Naidu: The obligation applies to election candidates nominated by political parties. This requirement is mandatory. As an election candidate for NFP in the 2014, 2018 and 2022 elections, Biman Prasad was legally required to declare his assets, income, liabilities, directorships, shares etc under the Act, specifically under s24.

Prasad did NOT disclose his Platinum Hotels & Resorts directorship.​

*DURATION OF DIRECTORSHIP: The Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures) Act 2013 does not specify a minimum duration for which a directorship must be held to warrant disclosure. Therefore, even if he served as director, for example, for only three months, this position should be declared. 
*The key consideration is the existence of the directorship during the reporting period, not its length. Failure to disclose such information constitutes non-compliance with the Act. Penalties for non-disclosure can include fines, imprisonment, or both. 
*Under the Act, an election candidate is required to disclose the name of any company where he or she has held a directorship, regardless of the duration of tenure in that company. Biman Prasad failed on both counts. In his first declaration on 28 July 2014, he did not disclose that he was co-director with his cousin Sunil Chand nor did he disclose the name of the company - Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd, a company that the two founded on 15 March 2014, and he had been gifted a 5% share by his cousin.

*Sadly, we only found out last year through Prasad's statutory declarations from 2014-2024 that he was no paragon of virtue and truth but a serial political devil in disguise. Shockingly, his statutory declarations (2014-2017) were witnessed and signed by the late Raman Pratap Singh, the lawyer and former President of NFP who resigned in March 2014 as president but unsuccessfully fought the election under Biman Prasad's leadership. Singh passed away on 18 May 2020. RIP. Whenever he got together with Biman Prasad and another Indo-Fijian Cabinet Minister, the late Singh (a friend for nearly four decades) never failed to link up via Viber with our Founding Editor-in-Chief for the three Indo-Fijian politicians to have a 'good chat on Fiji and the Bainimarama-Khaiyum dictatorship that must be removed at next election'.

RIP, Ram Pratap Singh. Singh resigned as NFP president on 29 March 2014, citing the need for "new blood" and "fresh faces" in the party leadership. He attempted to regain his seat for the NFP at the 2014 election in September, but was not successful. Singh died on 18 May 2020 in Suva.[

*PRASAD must RESIGN from Parliament and the Fiji Police must take over the 'Ficac File' and bring him to justice.​ BIMAN PRASAD and his co-director in Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd SUNIL CHAND (50/50 SHARES) held 30% shares each in Platinum Hotels & Resort Ltd that was established by the two and another colleague (held 40% shares) in November 2015 to provide hospitality services, with registered office of PHR at Nacovi, Nadi.
​*On 19 January 2016 Prasad and Chand suddenly quit as directors.
*The NFP leader Prasad should have declared his directorship in his 2015 and 2016 declarations, pursuant to section 24 (1) (a) (b) (iv) of the Political Parties Act 2013.

Fijileaks to Fiji Police Commissioner RUSIATE TUDRAVU:
​ Here are two counts to start with against NFP leader Biman Prasad

Count One
Statement of Offence

PROVIDING FALSE DECLARATION OF ASSETS, INCOME AND LIABILITIES: Contrary to section 24(1A) and 24(5) of the Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures) Act No. 4 of 2013.

Particulars of the Offence

BIMAN CHAND PRASAD between 01 January 2015 and 31 December 2015, at Suva in the Central Division, as the Leader of a registered Political Party namely the National Federation Party, provided a false declaration of assets and liabilities to the Supervisor of Elections by
failing declare and provide information namely that BIMAN CHAND PRASAD was a company Director in Platinum Resorts & Hotels Limited, a limited liability company duly registered with the Registrar of Companies in Fiji contrary to sections 24(1A) and 24(5) of the Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures) Act 2013.

Count Two
Statement of Offence

PROVIDING FALSE DECLARATION OF ASSETS, INCOME AND LIABILITIES: Contrary to section 24(1A) and 24(5) of the Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures) Act No. 4 of 2013.

Particulars of the Offence

BIMAN CHAND PRASAD between 01 January 2016 and 31 December 2016, at Suva in the Central Division, as the Leader of a registered Political Party namely the National Federation Party, provided a false declaration of assets and liabilities to the Supervisor of Elections by
failing to declare and provide information namely that BIMAN CHAND PRASAD was a company Director in Platinum Resorts & Hotels Limited, a limited liability company duly registered with the Registrar of Companies in Fiji contrary to sections 24(1A) and 24(5) of the Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures) Act 2013.

*What is the Police Commissioner waiting for? Here is another precedent from his own case that can be deployed to arrest ad charge Malimali

*Whatever recommendation COI Report makes, Barbara Malimali must be Arrested and Charged from preventing Biman Prasad's case to proceed

BLACKGUARD: With apologies to Ashwin Raj's 'Dictionary' and the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 'Blackguard: A man who behaves in a dishonourable or contemptible way.'

*If we had got hold of his mandatory statutory declarations ten years ago (2014) and not ten years later (2024), Biman Prasad would have been thrown out of Parliament, and possibly languishing in Naboro Prison for falsifying his 2014 statutory declaration. He got elected as NFP MP and leader of the party, and now as Finance and Deputy Prime Minister. *He, along with Ficac Commissioner Barbara Malimali and her side-kick Lusiate Fotofili must, under s131 of the RFMF Act, be removed and handed over to Police for prosecution.

*In April 2025, Malimali and Fotofili closed Prasad's case, citing that he was not required to declare his superannuation and that he had declared his shares and had confirmed not receiving any dividends from Lotus (Fiji) and Lotus Tours and Travel, a separate entity associated with Prasad. (Editor: Malimali and Fotofili had based their decision to close the Biman File after assessing the two complaints that were filed by Alex Forwood, Sydney, Australia). The two chose to ignore Fijileaks complaints with scores of documents, including that Biman Prasad did not disclose, as required, that his wife was trustee of Global Girmit Institute.
*We recently revealed that as co-director his cousin Sunil Chand has been receiving a director's fees. If so, what about Prasad?
*But since he lied in his FIRST statutory declaration to enter Parliament in 2014 under the 2013 Constitution, he must be expelled from Parliament and his case, including subsequent cases, be handled by Fiji Police.
*We also allege that he might have lied about the total worth of shares in his first declaration. He claimed he held $85,000 worth of shares in a company - he didn't reveal the name - now we know it was Lotus (Fiji), and neither did he reveal that he was one of the two founding directors of Lotus (Fiji). He was gifted 5% shares, presumably to enable the company to obtain a bank loan to build 28 villa units, then valued at over $4million.
​*Coming soon: The Valuation Report that proves Prasad lied about the total worth of his shares: $85,000. It was worth $210,000 in 2014.

*Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd, commonly referred to as Lotus(Fiji), was officially registered on 15 March 2014. The company was co-founded by Biman Prasad and his cousin Sunil Chand. At the time of registration, Prasad held a 5% share (gifted to him by Chand) in the company, while Chand held the remaining 95%. By 2018, their ownership was adjusted to an equal 50/50 shareholding.
*Fijileaks investigations revealed that he did not declare in his first declaration (28 July 2014) and subsequently his directorship in Lotus (Fiji), as mandated under Fiji's Political Parties Act 2013.
*In his Maiden Speech, on Wednesday 15 October 2014, as the newly elected NFP MP and party leader in Parliament, Prasad told us that the NFP fielded 49 men and women of integrity, honesty, and qualified to serve the people of Fiji. Three were elected to Parliament:

'Madam Speaker, our people have spoken. They have elected their government for the next four years. We wish the Prime Minister Honourable Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama and his government well for the next four years. As a party the NFP fought the general elections on specific issues. Team NFP had 49 men and women of integrity, honesty, and qualified to serve the people of Fiji. ​

*Biman Prasad MUST be KICKED OUT of Fiji's Parliament. He lied and falsified details in his statutory declarations in 2014, and continued until 2024. He must be expelled from Parliament.
*In closing the 'Ficac File', Barbara Malimali claimed that 'As there were no grievances raised in almost a decade, any ordinary person in the Honourable Dr Prasad's position might think that the declarations provided were sufficient'.
*We recently pointed out that the Political Parties Act 2013 requires that election candidates declare their incomes, assets, shares, directorships etc truthfully and faithfully. Biman Prasad lied for 10 years (for a decade) until we got hold of his declarations (2014-24).
​*Here, we are guided by the words of the great English judge Lord Denning in King v Victor Parsons & Co [1973]:

*DENNING and FIJI: Lord Denning, played a key role in resolving a dispute in Fiji's sugar industry. In 1969, he was appointed to arbitrate a conflict between Fiji's sugarcane growers and the Australian owners of the sugar refining mills. The arbitration was prompted by the growers' dissatisfaction with their contract and the mill owners' threat to leave Fiji if terms were not improved. The conflict stemmed from a contract expiring in March 1970 that sugarcane growers felt was unfavourable to them. Dennings arbitration led to a solution that favoured the growers by creating a new price formula and requiring mill owners to have their accounts inspected by an accountant.

LORD DENNING: "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."
*In Biman Prasad's case, he knowingly and recklessly concealed his directorship of Lotus (Fiji) from the Fiji Elections Office when he fought and won the 2014 election under the 2013 Constitution and the d'Hondt Electoral System. Now, he wants the same Constitution dismantled. He must be expelled from Parliament, and the Fiji Police (with the help of the RFMF]) must take him into custody, and lay the charges that he was facing on 5 September.

*We understand that he will walk away with a much smaller financial package than the rumoured $1.4million that was touted for a long time. His fate was sealed at the 99th USP Council meeting at Auckland, New Zealand. He is expected to exit USP in a couple of weeks. Until then, he will just be a 'Caretaker VC' - Lame Duck!

GATECRASHER: What the hell was Biman Prasad doing at the Auckland meeting as Finance Minister (Aiyaz Khaiyum all over again)? It should have been left to the Education Minister Aseri Radrodro to represent Fiji

Pal Ahluwalia, Biman Prasad and Aseri Radrodro at the opening of the 99th USP Council Meeting at Auckland University. 20 May 2025

21 May 2025

From Fijileaks Archive, 22 April 2016
*For years we believed BIMAN PRASAD was a paragon of virtue and truth until we got hold recently of his 'Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd File' and his statutory declarations from 2014-2024.
​*We had also supported Pal Ahluwalia against FFP dictatorship.

*Marriage Bliss: There are rumours that Speight has tied marriage knot?

The late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara

*DEPOSED PRIME MINISTER MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY, after being released, said he had been told of Rabuka's complicity by the leader of the CRW unit in parliament, Ilisoni Ligairi. In talks with Chaudhry, Ligairi had claimed he was very angry with Rabuka because he had ditched them at the last minute.

Fijileaks: Astonishingly, in June 2000, shortly after George Speight and others seized Parliament, Rabuka told the world that the old South Africa might be a model for Fiji. He no longer seemed to believe in a multi-racial chamber. Rabuka said Fiji might need racially segregated houses of parliament, ‘like pre-Mandela South Africa’, as part of a constitutional settlement to its problems. The solution to Fiji's problems ‘must come with a constitutional arrangement that [i-Taukei] Fijians can work with ... and at the moment, they cannot work with the 1997 Constitution’. *Basically, he was disowning the very 1997 Rabuka-Reddy Constitution. The two had lost the 1999 election under their Constitution, including NFP candidates Biman Prasad and Wadan Narsey, who was touted as Rabuka's new Finance Minister

Rabuka: "I supported every move to destabilise the Chaudhry government, but I was not part of the coup. I was not involved in any of the [pre-coup] marches. But I was going to be involved in the next one because it was [to be held at] the time of the signing of the successor to the Lome Convention this month.’
*Rabuka said he had known Speight and had played golf with him and knew of his commitment to indigenous rights. However, he did not agree that Speight represented the ‘soul’ or the ‘voice’ of the indigenous people, or  the i-Taukei. ‘Why should he consider himself the voice of the iTaukei? His grandfather was a European. The military has only [negotiated with] Speight because of the security of the hostages. He has no legal claim. I don't have any moral stance on whether his actions are right or wrong. I cannot say anything about that because I was in the coup in 1987. I am giving my opinions as a private citizen.’ But Speight ‘has lost the plot and right now he is trying to hang onto every little straw that floats by. He is living in a bubble, and very soon that bubble will burst’

RABUKA ON THE MUANIKAU ACCORD: The military has only [negotiated with] Speight because of the security of the hostages. He has no legal claim.

*The then interim Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase had obtained our founding Editor-in-Chief's four-part legal opinion that was published in Fiji's Daily Post newspaper and had passed it to the DPP's office to convict George Speight. Our Editor had also called for the recusal of then Chief Magistrate Salesi Temo who was preparing to release George Speight from Nukulau Island.

From Fijileaks Archive, 6 August 2024

*The secret Board of Inquiry (BOI) Report into the beatings of George Speight and his group was so sensitive that my sources inside the RFMF were too frightened to send it to me via post or e-mail. *We agreed that a trusted source should smuggle the BOI Report out of Fiji on his way to London. *In 2015, I travelled to London and received the Report from the source at an arranged location far from the Fiji High Commission. ​*I exposed its contents the same year. ​*The Report recommends that criminal charges be brought against Viliame Naupoto under s69 of the Fiji Army Act 1955, for conduct that went against Prejudice of Good Order and Military Discipline.

Fijileaks: Our half-baked Fiji journalists will never dare to ask Naupoto questions relating to the events of 19 May and his role regarding Speight

LEGAL QUIZ: How could someone who was sentenced to death by hanging but was pardoned and his sentence commuted to life in prison, be PARDONED again - only in Fiji. George Speight had pleaded guilty. He was 'not' pardoned but was showered with MERCY, so claimed the Coalition government.
"Beloved, don't be obsessed with taking revenge, but leave that to God's righteous justice. For the Scriptures say: 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.' says the Lord.
*The next time you run into him at Kundan Singh store,
'Buy him an Ice-Cream' for the damage he inflicted on Indo-Fijians and Fiji

Sunil Chand

A Tale of Two Lotus Directors Fees 
In closing Biman Prasad's 'Ficac File', Barbara Malimali and her side-kick Lisiate Fotofili stated
(24 April 2025):
"In relation to Lotus Construction and Lotus Tours and Travel; the form requires that declarants are to declare any dividends received and directorships. Honourable Dr. Prasad declared his shares in two companies, the value of one company and the loan obtained from the bank. Honourable Dr. Prasad also declared that he did not receive any dividends. So, whilst the Honourable Dr. Prasad declared his shares, no income in the form of dividends were received from the companies."
*First, Prasad was facing charges under the Political Parties Act 2013 for failing to declare in 2014 and subsequently that he was one of two DIRECTORS of Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd. We provided all the documents to FICAC before Malimali was parachuted in on 4 September 2024 and put a stop to charging Prasad, and later, on 25 April 2025, closed Biman Prasad's file on highly dubious and spurious grounds.

*In the course of our investigations, we found that Prasad's cousin and co-director Sunil Chand informed the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service as far back as 2016 (two years after Biman Chand and Sunil Chand had founded Lotus Fiji) that he was in receipt of a Directors Fees to the tune of $20,000. In that year, Prasad held 5% shares in the company. There is no evidence in Prasad's 2014/2015 declarations whether the shares were a GIFT or he purchased his shares. 
*If those shares were a GIFT, Prasad should have declared it under the Political Parties Act 2013. Worst, he did not declare that he was one of two DIRECTORS of Lotus (Fiji), a failure for which he was facing charges and was to be presented before a court on 5 September 2024.
​*We also established from documents on us that as recently as 24 November 2023, the accountant for Lotus (Fiji) declared the following:
'Confirmation of Earnings Mr Sunil Chand: This is to certify that Mr Sunil Chand is a Director of Lotus Construction (Fiji) Pte Ltd. He earns a Directors Fees from the company as part of his engagement'.
*We call on Fiji Police to execute a search warrant and uplift Fiji's Finance Minister and the FRCS line manager Biman Prasad's tax returns from 2014-2025 to establish if he is being paid a Directors Fees, and if so, whether he has been lying in his statutory declarations that he has been receiving NO Dividends from Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd.
​*We wrote to the Lotus (Fiji) accountant on 2 May 2025 but we received no response from him.

*Meanwhile, the confirmation letter that his co-director receives fees

*In his 2014 statutory declaration Biman Prasad failed to disclose that he was one of two directors in the Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd. He continued to hide his directorship until he became Coalition's Finance Minister in 2022. He was facing 10 charges when Malmali closed his 'Ficac File'.

Fijileaks: JOYTIKA JATTAN was among candidates who applied for the position of FICAC Commissioner that went to Barbara Malimali in 2024

With FRCS CEO Udit Singh

*BIMAN PARASAD did not disclose in his statutory declarations that he was one of two directors (the other his cousin SUNIL CHAND) of Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd, and that he had been gifted 5% shares in the company on 15 March 2014. He was still Professor of Economics at the University of the South Pacific.
*He prolifically lied in his statutory declarations for the next ten years until he became Finance Minister in the Coalition government. 
*Prasad had called Chaudhry a crook for not declaring $2 million being kept in Australia.

*As we close in on another Finance Minister and FRCA line-manager BIMAN PRASAD, he must be aware of our Founding Editor-in-Chief's role in the conviction of FLP leader and Bainimarama's Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhry. In fact, Biman Prasad has been reminding Chaudhry of the $2million in the Sydney bank account that our founding Editor-in-Chief had revealed in the Fiji Sun in 2008.

Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: In April 2014, Chaudhry was convicted in the Fiji High Court, six years after I had revealed the FLP leader's $2million in his Sydney bank account.
*Now, it turns out, that a month before Chaudhry's conviction in April 2014, NFP leader Biman Prasad had embarked on lies and falsehoods in his statutory declarations regarding his connection with Lotus Construction (Fiji) Ltd. He began his lies in 2014 and even got elected under the d'Hondt electoral system as NFP MP and leader in Parliament.
*We once again call on the Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to ask Prasad to resign as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, irrespective of the findings of the Commission of Inquiry on Biman Prasad.
​*He is a fugitive from law because of FICAC's Barbara Malimali.
​*We will reveal how his legal team tried to claim that the charges against Prasad were baseless but FICAC shot it down and wanted him charged.

*After all, Richard Naidu of Munro Leys is Fiji Times lawyer and was (is) the paper's regular columnist, bashing the Bainimarama-Khaiyum regime.
​*How come Fiji Times was unaware that on 3 September 20024 FICAC had raided the NFP office in preparation to charge Prasad on 5 September?
*Or was the paper aware but chose to wrap itself in Naidu's sulu? 

Alex Forwood KEEP on smiling, Keep on Running, ​Biman Prasad

"Ms (Alex) Forwood continues to make allegations that I have closed Dr Prasad's file. She continues to email me daily about these cases and so does VICTOR LAL. I don't read their emails but I find it distressing that these folks continually make accusations against me. I saw the Hon Dr Prasad's file briefly a couple of weeks ago and I have asked_____to find it for me." *Ficac Commissioner Barbara Malimali to her FICAC staff, 8 October 2024. Fijileaks Editor-in-Chief on DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: *Since Ms Forwood of Sydney, Australia, and I are the two principal complainants (separately) to FICAC against NFP leader, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Biman Prasad, we were (and are) within our legal and constitutional rights to chase Malimali for answers, even if our emails to her caused her distress and raised her high blood pressure.

Damsel in Distress resting with high blood pressure

COI Report will wipe-off the SMILE. Will Rabuka vote Graham Leung out as A-G?

LISIATE FOTOFILI, Co-Conspirator with Barbara Malimali
*According to our FICAC sources, it was Fotofili, appointed in February 2025 as new Acting Deputy FICAC Commissioner to replace Francis Pulewai, who overruled three legal opinions from FICAC's own legal counsels, and closed the 'Prasad File' on highly dubious grounds.
*His own appointment, as we have argued previously, is invalid because Puleiwei was constructively dismissed by Chief Justice Temo.
*Moreover, he had not resigned from his judicial duties before taking up the administrative position with FICAC.
*Fotofili must be sacked and charged with perverting the cause of justice.
*FICAC's legal counsels defended their decision to charge Prasad.

RAID TO SEIZE DOCUMENTS. According to Naidu's letter to Malimali, FICAC raided the NFP's head office on 3 September and seized documents. How come his pet newspaper and its staff on the Fiji Times were unaware of the raid?