Two more people have been identified in relation to an alleged scam which involved a businessman and two former workers of the then Department of National Roads involving more than $3 million.
Businessman Feroz Jan Mohammed and former civil servant workers Iliesa Turagacati and Navitalai Tamanitoakula are charged with bribery, obtaining a financial advantage and abuse of office.
The alleged incident happened between February 27th and July 2012, where Mohammed, a director of TF Jan Bulldozing Company Limited, offered payments amounting to $93,000 to Turagacati, who was a public servant employed as an acting project accountant in the then Department of National Roads.
It is also alleged in that same period, Mohammed and his company obtained a financial advantage amounting to more than $3 million by receiving money the company was not entitled to, upon submitting false invoices and circumventing the proper procedures concerning the processing of payments with the influence of Turagacati.
According to the charges, the payments were made from the funds allocated for upgrading the Nausori Highlands road.
The third accused in this matter, Tamanitoakula, is charged with abuse of office.
He is alleged to have processed payments amounting to more than $2 million paid to TF Jan Bulldozing Company Limited without following proper procedures.
Judge Justice Paul Madigan has ordered for the two identified that their file from the Ba Magistrates Court be brought in on the 1st of April.
The two that have been identified have had their charges consolidated with the two former civil servants.
The trial will start on the 27th of next month.
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