We say – FBCL sounds like sour grapes!
Fraud suspects can travel overseas, screams Fiji Broadcasting Corporation.
Former Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Limited Chairman Daniel Whippy and his deputy Champak Kapadia who both earlier in the year denied charges of fraud laid against them by FICAC, were given permission this morning by the Suva Magistrates Court to travel overseas.
Both were charged with one count each of obtaining money by false pretense.
FICAC alleges that Whippy and Kapadia on 19TH of March 2004 – with intent to defraud – procured the offer of an advance of $1,030,000 from Westpac Banking Corporation for the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Limited (FBCL), on the basis of a fictitious resolution.
Kapadia’s lawyer Hemandra Nagin says his client needs to travel overseas and asked the court if he could do so.
State Prosecutor Aca Rayawa objected to the accused traveling overseas and asked the court that certain conditions be put in place for his travel.
Magistrate Ajmal Khan ordered the two to advise the court registry and FICAC whenever they travel overseas and when they return.
The Matter is adjourned for mention on the 3rd of August.
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation LTD
