JUSTICE David Ashton-Lewis has assured there is “no compromise” while referencing an interview he gave to a broadcast media organisation in Australia last month.
The Fiji Times had reached out to Justice Ashton-Lewis on a social messaging platform last week following public concerns over an interview he had with Australian radio station Radio 4CRB.
“Let me assure you … there has been no compromise of the law or the report in my interview on 4CRB,” he replied.
In the interview for a program called “The Judge” on May 29, Justice Ashton-Lewis spoke of details relating to the findings of the Malimali Commission of Inquiry (COI) report; comments made in his capacity as the Commissioner of the inquiry.
He revealed he had made 72 recommendations and that it would be up to the Director of Public Prosecutions to engage the police to reinvestigate matters he had raised in the COI report.
“If satisfied, the Director of Public Prosecutions will lay indictments and then there’ll be a trial,” Justice Ashton-Lewis had said in the interview.
Last Monday, Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said they were still analysing the report. Several efforts to follow-up with him throughout the week on whether people named and implicated in the report had been questioned or charged were futile.
