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The Gokals v Renee Lal: Fijileaks to the Legal Practitioners Unit, "Get a bloody search warrant and raid ANZ Bank for financial details if the bank is not co-operating in the investigations - what is holding you back?"

17/7/2015

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For Your Diary: Fijileaks will not be updated between 17-21 July - Editor

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LPU lawyer Avneel Chand tells the Gokals: "I am informed that certain information was requested from ANZ Bank in order to assist in the investigations but they declined to assist." 10 July 2015

Fijileaks to Chand: If LPU don't have powers to issue search warrant, then you should refer the matter to DPP and a prosecution initiated under the Proceeds of Crime Act which also covers money laundering. Freezing orders can also be made under POCA! Or go to Aiyaz Khaiyum and LPU Commissioner Justice Paul Madigan and ask them to give LPU powers to storm and search banks for financial records

"Renee Lal - transferred 254K FJD out of the country to NZ on a false reserve bank clearance. These monies were from the sale of a property which my sister and I inherited. I fail to understand how this matter has not gone to police!" - The Gokals to PM's Office, 25 February 2015

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THE LAW IS AN ASS IN FIJI? Avneel Chand (circled)
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Fijileaks to Avneel Chand: The Gokal's financial plight is no laughing matter

Worst, even the legal overlord Aiyaz Khaiyum is not responding to the Gokals' e-mail request for direct intervention to get Renee Lal to account for $80,000 she is accused of stealing from Reema Gokal

    3 July 2015: Reema Gokal to Renee Lal:

"Renee,
In March 2007 you sold my grandfather's house for $330,000. This money was put into your Trust Account. In August 2012 my mum and I made our very first trip to Fiji to demand [from] you for our trust funds.

We asked you to provide receipts of payments made to Ravi and what was left for me. You said yes to providing the above but as time went by you did not show us anything at all. You even told my mum at your office that over a $100,000 was left for me. You did not show it to us in writing. You had started lying to my mum as soon as we started demanding for our money. You had stole my money and you knew it and so you started telling all kinds of lies to hide that true fact. When we had meetings with you in your office you always looked very nervous and always avoided questions about our money. You never made eye contacts.

In September 22, 2012 me and mum left Fiji because you promised my mum that you would send my share of the money to India in 2 weeks. You told us that you were going to send a BANKDRAFT to India. My poor mum did not know at the time that you were a liar and that you were just bullshiting us.

As soon as we reached India your stories started to change, your behaviour became very unusual. You diverted our phone calls. Whenever my mum asked you to send our money you started making excuses and telling lies. For example, im in hospital, im going to NZ, but most of all im very busy today. You always said "Yes dont worry im making arrangements to send your money to India." You told us lies and lies all throughout 2013. You never sent our money. You even played around with our banker Ritesh Patel and told him many times that you were sending money to my account.

Ritesh told my mother that you were just cheating us and doing fraud. You sent emails to Ritesh and made fake phone calls. BUT AT THE END HE REALISED THAT YOU WERE A CHEATER AND THAT YOU HAD STOLEN OUR MONEY. HE UNDERSTOOD YOUR GAMES and explained everything to me and my mother.

In 2013 we started verbally abusing you because we knew that you were never giving our money. We were suffering so badly without money but you just did not bother. We called you so many times but you always diverted your phone. The whole of 2013 me and Ravi threatened you and verbally abused you very very badly but still you did not return our money.

You made a deed of settlement in Feb 2013 but it was all fraud. There was no mention about my money. The amount was not written in your deed and we did not understand all your rubbish as well. My mother became very upset and we were very helpless. YOU COMPLETELY STOPPED COMMUNICATING WITH ME AND MUM BY THE END OF 2013 AND THE WHOLE OF 2014.

In November 2014 me and my mum made our second trip to Fiji to demand [from] you for our money. Our community people in India had paid for our tickets and living expenses. You gave us a horrible time during this trip. You refused to see us at your office. The staff lied to us and always said that you were in meetings but u were just hiding inside your office room. You made us wait outside your office till late in the evening. Once inside your office you swore at me and verbally abused me and my mum. You always called my mum a "BITCH".

You told me straight to my face that you had stolen my money and that was the truth. You said that nobody in Fiji can make u return my money. You told us that THE LPU is a weak body and they cannot do anything to you.
My mother had to threaten you many times using the police because you just did not want to talk about my money. We had to force you to see us in your office. My mother demanded that you show us in writing how much was paid out to Ravi and what remained for me but you refused to provide paperwork.

You put $100,000 owing to me in the deed without a single explanation and without providing us with any accounts. WHERE THE HELL DID U COME UP WITH THE $100,000 FROM? HOW DID U DO THIS CALCULATION? You gave us so much stress and tension and you gave $20,000 to me and again you said that u will send the $80,000 as soon as possible.

As soon as we arrived back to India in December 2014 you completely stopped communication with us and you never sent the $80,000 to India. So again in March 2015 we came to Fiji for the third time to demand for our funds. This time you just hid from us and never showed us your face. You just did not want to face us any more.

You communicated with me over the phone only. You said that you will not return my funds because i had lodged complaints and your main excuse was FIJI LEAKS and my complaints to the PMs Office. This time you just left us by ourselves and we struggled and came back to India." Reema Gokal, copied to Fijileaks
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ANZ Fiji chief executive officer Vishnu Mohan (left) handing Frank Bainimarama $50,000 cheque to PM's Relief Fund; even the bank is becoming a law to itself in Fiji
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This was what Renee Lal made them sign but allegedly did not pay:

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25 Comments
rajend naidu
15/7/2015 05:35:52 pm

' FIFA Arrests Come at a Time of Continued Swiss Cooperation ' NYT 27 May. The secretcy that surrounds Swiss banks was set aside to facilitate the FBI investigations and arrest of FIFA's corrupt officials.
What is indeed holding the Fiji law enforcement authorities back?

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rajend naidu
16/7/2015 06:01:26 pm

Switzerland extradites FIFA official to face trial in the US for corruption ( DW news 17/7 ).yes, where there is the will there is the way to haul corrupt people to court. And conversely, where there is no will there is only pathetic excuses like the one made by the LPU lawyer.

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Yash
15/7/2015 06:00:44 pm

LPU is a joke. They only run after those lawyers whom Mohd Saneem n khaiyum wants to see being prosecuted.
Mohd Saneem got a complainant lodge his complaint n got a well known Lawyer of Labasa prosecuted within a two weeks time.
The rest of the complaints are locked in a cupboard.
Its all politics victor. This government has got all under their toes
Until n unless this regime goes, we will see this similar type of practice.

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Yep
15/7/2015 07:57:05 pm

The law in Fiji is an ass and a lot of lawyers are acting like arseholes

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ANZ
15/7/2015 06:32:24 pm

ANZ continues to deem a close relationship with Government of Fiji, giving massive loans at a highest interest rate by global comparisons.

It's CEO now presides over many government entities ,now that is a bit tacky and i wonder if it is ethical and is this an ANZ policy on it's operations in the Pacific.

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Saamjo
15/7/2015 09:11:35 pm

Fiji will not become a better country or it's people better off just because some big name banker now presides over many government entities. We had a banker as PM and he did no good. The World Bank and IMF have brilliant banking minds but their grand plans and projects have not delivered a better world or humanity.

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Dekho
15/7/2015 06:48:17 pm

Banks , bank executives and ethics have been mutually exclusive . Just look at the number of banking big boys that have been hauled to court around the world for fraudulent behaviour.
And, don't forget our own banking dons in the collapse of the NBF.

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Fiji is full of Crooks
15/7/2015 10:42:29 pm

Talking about the collapse of NBF, I wonder why the Reserve Bank big wigs like Jone Kubuabola and Sada Reddy were not investigated for their negligence re their prudential supervisory role !!

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Shannon
15/7/2015 10:56:57 pm

Dear Editor,

The NBF crisis was supposed to be a lesson that Fiji well and truly learned from. Unfortunately, it does not seem to have been the case with the Fiji Government promoting HFC to a bank status from a credit institution status.

The purpose of the move was apparent to those close to the deal: Make HFC a bank which is controlled by the FNPF and the government can then use HFC as its conduit to borrowing globally, i.e. HFC brings in the offshore loans and lends back to the government at a higher rate. In the end, the shareholders (FNPF and Unit Trust of Fiji) all benefit and the government still makes money off the two shareholders. It certainly has become a dog eat dog world in this case.

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Tomasi Koroi
15/7/2015 08:00:57 pm

Dear Editor,
It is good you are raising this question. But do you know that such problems abound in all countries, even yours Britain, where banks have gone wild with breach of people's faith in them. I do not see you saying anything on hundreds of thousand s in Britain who have lost money (taxes) in bank bailouts. I think all you want to do is to show only Fijians are bad. Sure, there is a lot of bad things happening in Fiji. But instead of rumour and gossip, you do not write about them. Say how about you write on the Finance Ministry now saying they gave money to Auntie Noor Bano to pay salaries for nephew? As supposedly a 'leaker' find and leak how much was paid and to who. Otherwise you will be like a petty coconut wireless reporter.

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Bahuki
15/7/2015 10:28:03 pm

Anything thats been done "under the table" is surely worth reading about in regards to Bank Flaws, but it sure sounds like LPU is not doing its job right by the looks of it.

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Banker
16/7/2015 01:40:00 am

Tomasi

If it was UK, Police would have raided the ANZ bank or forced the bank to hand over documents - a lawyer is accused of stealing a clien'ts money so get that into your head

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Tomasi Koroi
16/7/2015 02:59:11 am

Dear Banker,
You write as if no lawyer in the UK steals clients money!! hahaha Lawyers are lawyers, whether it be in Fiji or the UK. My point is different, however. Leaks is looking at petty matters which affect all countries motivated by greed. Where Fiji is different is in suppression of human rights in a supposedly democratic country. And continuation of dictatorship. Leaks is fast descending to the Sun's coconut wireless level.

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ANZ INTEGRITY
16/7/2015 03:24:10 am

Message has to go out to New Zealand and Australia as proprietors of ANZ,;how many executives In NZ and Australia preside over government entities in respective countries?

Do they preside over specialist areas of Public Service,Water Boards, Road Authority etc..and provide loans given an obvious conflict of interest positions.

ANZ should come clean and state such dubious roles.

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Johnny
16/7/2015 05:53:57 am

I do not support the view that all lawyers in Fiji are cheats but it can be safely said that a great majority are crooks. Renee seems to be one of those. What's mind-boggling is that there seems to be some authority at play in this case who are ensuring that she remains untouched from any disciplinary actions. lawyers and law firms have been taken to tasks for abusing of trust fund. This lady raving around untouched by the independant legal commission is prove that done are more equal than others in Fiji. It makes me wonder why other media outlets have not picked on this story and got a response from justice minister and ministry. As I said previously, the case being swept under the carpet for this long suggests that a higher power I'd providing support to renee lal. In time, Victor will be able to uncover who this secret power is.

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Chiku
16/7/2015 04:19:39 pm

Khaiyum and Bainimarama have built a " new " Fiji where all the citizens are " equal ". This case shows everyone in Fiji is equal - Animal Farm style!

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Socho
16/7/2015 04:43:38 pm

If Rainere Lal is being protected by a higher power what is her maanjah!

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socho
17/7/2015 10:14:33 am

WHO IS PROTECTING "RENEE LAL" IN FIJI????????

Welcome Home
16/7/2015 09:38:07 am

The smell of organised crime may be intuited. For many years no one and especially not the media nor even the Fiji Police would listen to what was under their very noses. None may say they were duly and regularly informed. So what may be deduced from this? The professionals were failing their oaths to uphold the Rule of Law and Due Process. Game, Set and Match.

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Tomasi Koroi
16/7/2015 01:23:26 pm

The sign of a gossip column is that gossip gets pronounced as the truth. This is what Leaks and its commentators have been doing. If the aggrieved lady believes she has been defrauded, then she can take her case to the court. Courts will accept her writ, wont they? Why is she relying on a public trial of a lawyer. I know many lawyers are crooks. But i also know equally that many who claim to be victims of lawyers are also in good measure nothing but crooks. A credible media will let such matters be dealt with in the forum they should. But I mean a credible media; Leaks is coconut wireless.

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Chiku
17/7/2015 04:20:48 pm

If Fijileaks had not put the spotlight on the many cases it has brought to public attention since the unlawful takeover of the country by Bainimarama and his fellow thugs these cases would have never seen the light of day. People like Tomasi Koroi have accepted without critical examination what kind of system we have in place since our purported returned to democracy. He perpetuates the myth that it's all good now with our return to democracy. That is pure bullshit!

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well done chiku
19/7/2015 05:38:53 am

well done chiku, you have hit the nail at the right spot.
this witless tomasi karoi (assuming he exists or is simply bogus)
represents those Fijians whose brains are the size of a peanut and
they don't have the average intelligence to distinguish the real truth from the myth.

EXPOSED
18/7/2015 04:27:27 am

Fijileaks exposed Kamasutra Min Reddy, Dr Neil Sharma, Ganesh Chand, Midlife Investments,Shirley Park Fiasco, Aunty Nur at her hand with failed Casino, Rewa Dairy, Ministrial pay...the list goes on.

It shall take one year, maybe 10 years but destination Naboro awaits these culprits.

There shall be no doubt, the hot shot Sri Lankan led judiciary who perhaps presided over atrocities in their own home country should make plans for real justice in time.

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rajend naidu
18/7/2015 04:42:49 pm

Editor,
Reading Betty A Reardson's book Women and Peace : Feminist Visions of Global Security ( 1993 ) strengthened my own conviction and advocacy that humanity would be better off with more women in leadership, especially political leadership.
Diana Sheridan's review of the book will tell you why . Diana Sheridan, the Assiciate Director Centre for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon writes :
" Reardson's book examines those ingredients necessary to reconstruct a society free of the competitive, violent, and war-entered methods that define today's reality, replacing it with one exhibiting the egalitarian, holistic, and cooperative patterns rooted in women's culture and experience but applicable to all of society, women and men alike ".
But the ground experience, the ground reality is rather different.
Let me give one example to illustrate this.
In her letter to the Age 18/7 Penny Mackieson writes Madam Speaker Bronwyn Bishop's shameful and egregious use of taxpayer funds fails the ethics test. Her sense of entitlement also fails the reality test, corresponding more to her elitist belief that she is more deserving of privileges and special treatment..."
In today's Australian newspapers we learn Bishop not only hired a $5000 helicopter ride to a Liberal Party fundraiser which would have cost only $160 by taxi, she spend $1000 a day on limousine during her $90,000 fortnight in Europe.
I means this just confirms to me that women can be just as rotten in leadership, especially political leadership.
And it goes without saying that women lawyers can be just as unscrupulous as their male counterparts.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

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rajend naidu
20/7/2015 04:21:53 pm

Editor,
Double standards and two sets of rules have become so commonplace in today's world.
Joe Weller explains in his letter to the Sydney Morning Herald 21/7 :
" As a solicitor,I have acted for people who were on dole, did not declare a job and were jailed for it. It underscores how very seriously the law regards taking taxpayers money with no lawful excuse.Someone should interrupt the Australian Federal Police's war on terror and remind it of this.unless of course the rules only apply to the hoi polloi".
The Australian Speaker Bronwyn Bishop misused taxpayer money but the PM refused to apply the rules of ethical behaviour in her case.
We know from Fijileaks revelations that we have had a lot of that kind of double standards in the application of the rules - including the rule of law - in Fiji since the Bainimarama takeover in 2006.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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