{"id":3607,"date":"2023-03-09T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T04:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T04:47:38","slug":"bainimarama-and-qiliho-charged-with-abuse-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"Bainimarama and Qiliho charged with abuse of office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho have been charged with abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde has sanctioned the charges following a review of the police evidence docket.<\/p>\n<p>Pryde says the charges relate to a complaint laid with the police by the University of the South Pacific in July 2019 in relation to the activities of former staff members of the university.<\/p>\n<p>The DPP says Bainimarama and Qiliho are alleged to have arbitrarily and in abuse of the authority of their respective offices, terminated an active police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The police have also been requested to undertake further investigations into other matters arising from this case and more charges may be laid against other suspects in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with us for developments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news_reader\">\n<p>Former Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho are currently being questioned at the CID Headquarters in Suva.<\/p>\n<p>Qiliho arrived at around lunch time while Bainimarama arrived soon after 4pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fijivillage.com\/news_images\/119955402264095f26b55d61edfb54.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>fijivillage News has been informed that the questioning is in relation to a complaint by the University of the South Pacific in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Intelligence, Investigations and Prosecutions Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police (A\/ACP) Sakeo Raikaci says the earlier interview was suspended whereby the file was sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.<\/p>\n<p>Raikaci says the continuation of the questioning is in accordance with the processes to be undertaken before the investigation is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with us for developments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho have been charged with abuse of office. Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde has sanctioned the charges following a review of the police evidence docket. Pryde says the charges relate to a complaint laid with the police by the University of the South Pacific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}