Proof? ... Peter Foster reading Fijian newspaper The Sunday Times.
 Peter Foster supplied this image of himself with Fijian paraphernalia from the weekend. Fugitive conman Peter Foster has provided a photograph he says proves he has fled Australian justice to Fiji. The photograph shows Foster, who last week did not attend a Brisbane court where he was sentenced to 18 months jail over his involvement in weight loss scam Sensaslim, reading what appears to be Sunday’s edition of Fijian newspaper The Sunday Times. ‘‘Hope this photo is our [sic] some use to you,’’ Foster said in an email to Fairfax Media. ‘‘It is me reading the Fiji Sunday Times yesterday drinking kava.’’ In an interview with News Limited papers published on Sunday, Foster said he arrived in Fiji on Saturday after travelling on a fake passport. Fiji’s Department of Immigration said it had no record of Foster entering the country. ‘‘Foster is wanted in Fiji for charges relating to obtaining a work permit using false documentation in 2006,’’ the department said in an emailed statement. ‘‘If he is in the country, he will be apprehended and these charges will be reactivated. If found guilty, Peter Foster faces [a] potential jail sentence.’’ While Australia and Fiji have an extradition treaty, Foster has reportedly said he will ask Fiji’s Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, for asylum. Commodore Bainimarama seized power in a 2006 military coup but has promised to hold elections next year. Foster promised to send ‘‘some background on my long term support for Commander [Bainimarama] in Fiji, and why I say he is good for Fiji and why it was the coup Fiji needed to have’’. The Foster family have a long history in Fiji, where his mother Louise runs a foundation that according to its website ‘‘has built housing, paid for the education of underprivileged children, and for further education by way of a scholarship programmes to Universities and the Fiji School of Medicine’’. As part of Foster’s involvement in Fiji politics he funded the 2001 election campaign of the New Labour Party. In 2006, wearing only his underpants, he was arrested in Fiji on immigration fraud charges. He escaped to Vanuatu, where he was convicted of immigration offences and sentenced to two months jail, but allowed out after a few days. On his website, fijitruth.org, Foster claims Commodore Bainimarama staged the coup ‘‘seeking to rid the country of corruption’’. ‘‘We believe that Commodore Frank Bainimarama is Fiji’s last hope,’’ the website states. Foster was due to attend the Federal Court in Brisbane on Thursday for sentencing on contempt of court charges. Late last month, Justice John Logan found Foster’s involvement with Sensaslim broke court orders made in 2005 banning him from involvement in the weight loss industry for five years. Source: Sydney Morning Herald  Swimming to remain afloat from justice |  Peter Foster supplied this photo of himself with Fiji newspapers from the weekend. Is Foster hiding in the Yasawas?  Kurikutogo The Foster Foundation and EPELI KURIKUTOGO'S "SUCCESS STORY" "I am 33 years of age and my mother was formerly of Yasawa-I-Rara in the Yasawa Islands. I have known Mrs Louise Foster and her son Peter Foster, her daughter Jill and granddaughter Arabella since November 2000. I was Dux at my school and started my first year of study at the Fiji School of Medicine in Suva. Tragically, my father died unexpectedly and I had to leave my medical studies and return to work to provide financially for my mother and brothers and sisters. When I met the Foster family I was working on the tourist cruise ship the Mystique Princess for Blue Lagoon Cruises as a deck hand. I would work six weeks at a time before returning home to my mother and family for one week rest. Then I would start another six week shift away from home. The pay was very poor, less than one dollar an hour when on duty. Early one morning, about 5 a.m., I was hosing down the deck when I met a guest, Mrs Louise Foster. She was on the back deck having a cigarette and we started to talk. She asked me my life story and I told her. I think her interest was first raised because she could tell I was well spoken and had a high school education, which is rare amongst other men from the village working as deck hands. Later that day she asked me to meet her son Peter Foster. They had spoken to the ships Captain and he confirmed what I had said was true. They then offered to assist me financially so that I could return to the Fiji School of Medicine. I told them that I doubted they would be able to regain me a place as it was very hard to get into medicine and I just thought it was people making promises they would soon forget. To my great surprise, Peter contacted Dr Tupeni Baba, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji and a Professor at the University of the South Pacific. Peter arranged for me to go to Suva and meet Dr Tupeni Baba to seek his evaluation and assistance. Within a matter of days, I was able to regain my position at the Fiji School of Medicine. Peter Foster promised me that he would pay for me to complete my studies. This would include paying all of my tuition fees, accommodation, meals, clothing and also pay me a weekly allowance so that I could send money to my mother and family and also support myself so I could study fulltime. Peter Foster did all that he promised and much more. He paid all the costs for several years so I could study fulltime and even bought me new clothes, a laptop computer, even a mobile telephone so I could be contacted by my mother if her health faulted. My allowance was deposited into my bank account every month and my tuition fees and accommodation were always paid on time. In fact, at one time he overpaid my tuition fees by over $3000, but instead of having the Fiji School of Medicine refund him the money he authorised them to give the money to me so I could help my mother and family. I met my wife whilst I was at the Fiji School of Medicine. She is now a medical doctor and we have two children. There is no doubt that Peter Foster and his family changed not only my life for the better, but for my family and now my children. My mother and I thank God every day for the kindness that the Foster’s have extended to us, never seeking anything in return. I just think it is something of a miracle." |
Peter Foster supplied this photo of himself with Fiji newspapers from the weekend..he says he is ``watching Fiji's TV One News last night holding both The Fiji Times and The Fiji Sun''.
