*USP Staff Association executive Ilima Finiasi was the complainant who filed the complaint on 8 July 2019 at the Totogo Police Station.
*Rashmi Dass, the Investigating Officer from CID responsible for investigation into USP, had disclosed the name of Finiasi during the trial of Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho
From Fijileaks Archive, 12 October 2023
*ILLIMA FINIASI is an Office Assistant in Neelesh Gounder's School of Accounting, Finance and Economics (SAFE) at USP.
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Meanwhile, the BDO Report commissioned by Pal Ahluwalia, parts of which were revealed by Lionel Aingimea, President of Nauru and on USP Council on Tuesday 7 September 2021 despite a decision to maintain strict confidentiality regarding its contents.
On 13 March 2023, Ahluwalia was recommending an Honorary Doctorate in Law for Aingimea and some months later, in July, hypocritically sacked Dr Tamara-Osborne for giving a one-paragraph comment to Islands Business magazine on Ahluwalia and the future of USP.
The full report and further incriminating materials were leaked to Fijileaks
Pacific Technical and Further Education former CEO, Dr. Hasmukh Lal says he cannot recall if Research and Analytical Officer, Priya Devi analysed data for his doctorate paper.
He has taken USP to court following his dismissal in 2020 due to alleged plagiarism in his doctorate paper.
Dr Lal alleges his dismissal by Vice-Chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia was against procedures and did not allow him natural justice.
He is alleging that there was breach of contract by USP and is claiming financial loss such as salary, and entitlements under the contract, humiliation and loss of dignity.
Dr. Lal is claiming about $500,000 as loss of salary.
While being cross-examined by USP's lawyer Feizel Haniff, Dr. Lal says certain pages were inserted by Devi as annexure.
When put to Dr. Lal if he can confirm if certain pages were not appendices but the actual body of the paper, he says there was data put in by her.
He denies she was commenting on the data on the paper.
He also denies that up until a meeting with Devi on 21st May, 2019 there was any transfer of documents from him to her.
Dr. Lal has also denied when put to him by Haniff that he called her into the meeting to tell her to treat the paper as highly confidential and not to mention it until published.
He has taken USP to court following his dismissal in 2020 due to alleged plagiarism in his doctorate paper.
Dr Lal alleges his dismissal by Vice-Chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia was against procedures and did not allow him natural justice.
He is alleging that there was breach of contract by USP and is claiming financial loss such as salary, and entitlements under the contract, humiliation and loss of dignity.
Dr. Lal is claiming about $500,000 as loss of salary.
While being cross-examined by USP's lawyer Feizel Haniff, Dr. Lal says certain pages were inserted by Devi as annexure.
When put to Dr. Lal if he can confirm if certain pages were not appendices but the actual body of the paper, he says there was data put in by her.
He denies she was commenting on the data on the paper.
He also denies that up until a meeting with Devi on 21st May, 2019 there was any transfer of documents from him to her.
Dr. Lal has also denied when put to him by Haniff that he called her into the meeting to tell her to treat the paper as highly confidential and not to mention it until published.
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