SUVA (FBC NEWS) —Former Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by Acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo at the Suva High Court.
Suspended Police Commissioner will serve two years.
Bainimarama was found guilty of one count of attempt to pervert the course of justice in the University of the South Pacific(USP) case and while Qiliho was found guilty of one count of abuse of office.
Justice Temo quashed the sentence that was handed down earlier by Magistrate Puamau.
He said the option to not record the convictions was not available to the Magistrate.
The Acting Chief Justice said the state succeeded in their appeal…. PACNEWS