Former attorney-general Graham Leung has issued a warning that the consequences of the FICAC Commission of Inquiry could set a dangerous precedent, threatening due process for anyone in public life.
“If this can happen to all 11 of us, it can happen to any one of you,” he told journalists, referencing others named in the report.
He said the inquiry had “extracted from all of us in Fiji … by debasing our best instincts through social media gossip … jumping to quick conclusions based on flimsy conspiracy theories.”
Mr Leung likened the experience to tactics used during the Bainimarama era, where “the law was used as a weapon to intimidate, to threaten and to silence”.
He said the commission’s findings were based on “lazy guesswork” and had caused damage to Fiji’s legal culture.
“Our worst enemies could not have hoped for a better result had they planned this themselves,” he said.
“From my professional perspective, the report is a travesty of justice.”
“When the history of this country comes to be written, we will look back at this episode and think of it as a somewhat strange and bizarre moment in our country’s history.”
