THE officer of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption whom former journalist Charlie Charters allegedly “aided and abetted” in publishing official information, has not yet been identified.
Defence lawyer Seforan Fatiaki made the submission after receiving second-phase disclosures from FICAC prosecutor Rusiate Doidoi before Magistrate Shageeth Somaratne yesterday.
Charters has been charged with two counts of aiding and abetting a FICAC officer divulge official FICAC information under Section 45 of the Crimes Act and Section 13G of the FICAC Act.
FICAC alleges that between November 2 and December 14, 2025, and February this year, Charters intentionally aided and abetted a person who was at the material time an officer of FICAC to commit an offence by publishing official information relating to FICAC functions on his Facebook page without permission of the FICAC Commissioner.
Charters’s application to vary his bail conditions, to allow him to travel to Australia for employment purposes, will be heard tomorrow after the prosecution opposed the application. Charters was described by his lawyers as a Hong Kong resident who was travelling through Fiji to collect his Fiji passport but who needed to travel to an event in Sydney, Australia, as part of his employment.
Charter holds dual citizenship of Fiji and the United Kingdom.
His bail was extended, and the case was adjourned to today, March 3.
