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Former Fiji PM and Police Commissioner found guilty

By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific Correspondent
March 14, 2024
Voreqe Bainimarama in 2019

Voreqe Bainimarama in 2019 (Source: Getty)

Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has this morning been convicted in Suva High Court for attempting to pervert the course of justice and faces a maximum jail term of five years.

And suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho has been convicted of abuse of office and faces a maximum jail term of 10 years.

They will both be sentenced on March 28.

This is around a police complaint at the University of the South Pacific where Bainimarama directed the Police Commissioner at the time Qiliho to stop the investigation.

Last October they were both acquitted in the Magistrates Court of the charges but that has now been overturned.

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