{"id":9544,"date":"2024-03-28T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T00:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T00:53:33","slug":"former-fiji-leader-frank-bainimarama-suspended-police-chief-avoid-jail-in-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9544","title":{"rendered":"Former Fiji leader Frank Bainimarama, suspended police chief avoid jail in corruption case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama was given an absolute discharge in a packed Suva&#8217;s Magistrates Court on Thursday after last week being convicted of perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>An absolute discharge is the lowest-level sentence that an offender can get. It means no conviction is registered against Bainimarama.<\/p>\n<p>State broadcaster\u00a0<i>FBC<\/i>\u00a0reports, Magistrate Seini Puamau considered Bainimarama&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old was sentenced alongside suspended police chief Sitiveni Qiliho, who was given a FJ$1500 fine without conviction as well.<\/p>\n<p>The absolute discharge and a fine without conviction was given despite the prosecutors last week urging Magistrate Puamau to order immediate custodial sentences towards the high end of the tariff for both men &#8211; which would be no less than five years in jail for Bainimarama and 10 years for Qiliho.<\/p>\n<p>Source : RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama was given an absolute discharge in a packed Suva&#8217;s Magistrates Court on Thursday after last week being convicted of perverting the course of justice. An absolute discharge is the lowest-level sentence that an offender can get. It means no conviction is registered against Bainimarama. State broadcaster\u00a0FBC\u00a0reports, Magistrate Seini Puamau considered Bainimarama&#8217;s health. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","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=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}