BIG BUCKS: The Directors, Shareholders, and their Families, representing of some of Fiji's largest companies, took full advantage of Khaiyum's Convoluted Donation Decree, with Tappoos dwarfing
his business rivals - but all of them for 'Vote FijiFirst Party'
We will continue to reveal individual donors to these companies who donated between 2014 and 2019
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'STEPTOE AND SON' FULL MONTY STRIP SHOW: Not To Our Taste
Fijileaks: In response to those nudging us to DUMP the entire FFP list on social media, we say to them, 'That is not our modus operandi. We LEAD and not FOLLOW. We have identified 99 per cent of the donors, many who legitimately donated under Khaiyum's Donation Decree. In fact, it was our Founding-Editor-in Chief who set the ball rolling last week, when he asked for the list from the Elections Office. For SIX YEARS, the Opposition and their cheerleaders sat with arms folded behind their backs until this week, and have now gone into a frenzy like "TWIN KIDS" in a Lollipop Shop.'
We will also reveal SODELPA, FLP and other parties donors. Our Founding-Editor-in Chief and Co-Winner with former Fiji Sun Publisher Russell Hunter of the 2008 Robert Keith-Reid Award for Outstanding Journalism, has over three decades of experience in investigative journalism - from exposing [with others, led by 'Spike' Padarath, the late Editor of the original Fiji Sun] the infamous 1982 Carroll Report of the Alliance Party to Haryanagate: FLP leader Mahendra Pal Chaudhry's $2million secret stash in an Australian bank account, leading to his CONVICTION. In 2016, our Founding Editor-in-Chief [and Fijileaks] were short-listed with top 100 other 'remarkable champions against censorship' for
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So, PLEASE, have patience. We always talk Truth to Power. We will upload the entire
FFP List at the end of our investigations.
Returning to WESTERN BUILDERS, shortly before the 2014 general elections, on 20 June 2014, Faiz Javed Jan donated $10,000 and on the same day his two uncles, Taj Jan and Mobin Jan, donated $5,000 each respectively. Their full names were not recorded in the donor list: Taj Jan Mohammed and Mobin Jan Mohammed. The $20,000 was accepted by FFP Treasurer and current acting Fiji Pine Ltd CEO VIMLESH KUMAR. FAIZ JAVED JAN is the son of Feroz Jan Mohammed, and nephew of the two Jan FFP donor brothers. Feroz Jan Mohammed, of TF Jan Bulldozing, is currently serving a 8 year jail term for a scam involving $3.1million. He was jailed in 2015 with a non-parole period of 5 years. Despite pleading poverty before the Fiji High Court (which the Judge refused to believe) his son Faiz, two years later, on 9 May 2017, donated another $10,000 (RN: 1720).
In 2015, we had alleged that Western Builders had reportedly 'built someone's house free of cost at Nadi back road'.
From Fijileaks Archives, 3 June 2015:
JUSTICE PAUL MADIGAN while jailing FEROZ JAN MOHAMMED, Director, TF Jan Bulldozing Company, Fiji High Court, 24 June 2015
One of his sons, FAIZ JAVED JAN, donated $10,000 to FFP on 20 June 2014
“Mr [Feroz] Jan, you have been convicted of three crimes of dishonesty, The bribery and the obtaining of $3m of unwarranted monies are crimes against the Fijian people who have for years been crying out to have their roads repaired. As soon as that wish was granted you went to great lengths by using your staff and others to syphon off the money allocated for those roads. I find it difficult to reconcile the fact that many of your children have said in their letters how kind and generous you are to your wider family and to the poor people of your District, to reconcile that with your determination to obtain for your companies the monies allocated to make the lives of all people in the interior easier. But obviously your greed blinded you to the needs of others. Not only did you use your staff to forge documents, and to make deliveries of bribery cash, you compromised the integrity of an old school friend, Vaseva, in an attempt to conceal the fact that you were delivering money to Iliesa. How can your children say you are a kind and caring man when you involve people who would call you a friend in such a cynical operation?...Through your counsel you have provided the Court with details of your finances for the years 2013 and 2014 and you have handed up twelve letters of reference. It will come as no surprise to you I am sure that I find that all of that material is dishonest. 41. It is absurd for you to claim that your assessable income for the years you have shown me is $9065 for year ending 2012,and $9517 for year ending 2013. You say that your only assets are worth $200,000 being an unfinished home on the hillside in Ba and a sugar cane farm worth $100,000. You claimed income from the farm in 2012 but fail to mention farm income in 2013. For both years you have declared receiving large interest payments from deposits with the Westpac Bank, but you fail to include those deposits as assets to the Court. Evidence in the trial showed that you had interest in other companies but none of that was declared by you when advising the Court of your assets. Nearly all your referees tell of your great generosity towards the poor of Ba and to impoverished Members of your family. In addition your Counsel submits that you are supporting your wife and 7 children. None of this would be possible on an income of less than $10,000. You have been seen during the course of this trial driving about in a very expensive car. This was not declared as an asset. None of the financial material you have instructed your Counsel to provide to the Court is credible, and I reject it...The total term you will serve for all of these offences is one of 8 years imprisonment and you will not be eligible to be considered for parole until you have served 5 years. "
FAIZ JAVED JAN who donated $10,000 in 2014 and 2017 is the son of Feroz Jan Mohammed, and nephew of the two Jan FFP donor brothers. Feroz Jan Mohammed is currently serving a 8 year jail term for a scam involving $3.1million. He was jailed in 2015 with a non-parole period of 5 years.
Again, from Fijileaks Archives, 2016
