After initially being spared jail, former Fijian leader Frank Bainimarama has been handed a one-year term for perverting the course of justice.
Frank Bainimarama, a long-serving former prime minister of Fiji, has been sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice. Fiji's High Court found Bainimarama guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice while he was prime minister by telling then-police commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho not to investigate allegations of graft at the University of the South Pacific. Qiliho had also been found guilty of abuse of office by the High Court.
The former PM was granted an absolute discharge while the suspended COMPOL received a conditional discharge with a fine of $1,500 on 28 March 2024 by the Suva Magistrates Court following which the State had filed an appeal and challenged the discharge for a custodial sentence." — Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions A former military chief, Bainimarama came to power in a 2006 coup and later won elections in 2014 and 2018.
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