The Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption will amend the charge information against former Telecom Fiji Ltd and Amalgamated Telecom Holdings board member Sanjay Kaba and present it tomorrow.
The amendment relates to changing one of the dates in the information from 2019 to 2018, after both parties agreed during the trial that Mr Kaba resigned as a board member in 2018.
FICAC will also replace the word “tender” with “expression of interest”.
According to the unamended information, Mr Kaba, between January 27, 2017, and January 2019, while being a board member of TFL and ATH Ltd, engaged in a conduct namely using information and influence obtained by virtue of his position to procure the submission of a tender through Houng Lee Kaba Jacob Pie Limited, a company in which he was a director and shareholder.
It is also alleged that as a result, Mr Kaba obtained $766,327.22 between June 2022 and July 2023, knowing or believing that HLK Jacob was not eligible to receive that financial advantage.
FICAC today called its last two witnesses: Samuela Vadei, TFL’s general manager of human resources and corporate services, and former TFL civil engineering consultant Isoa Tawaketolu.
FICAC intends to close its case tomorrow before Magistrate Charles Ratakele.
