High Court Judge Justice Daniel Goundar will give his bail ruling on the 28th of this month in the case of Seta Ram who has been charged with 12 counts of Obtaining Property by Deception and 1 Count of Money Laundering.
Ram has also been jointly charged with her twin sister Gita Ram have been jointly charged with 17 counts of Trafficking in Person.
Her sister who is currently in Australia, has been charged with 5 counts of Obtaining Property by Deception and 1 count of Money Laundering in absentia.
The prosecution informed the court that they will be objecting bail as there are 17 complainants and there maybe a high chance of interference.
The 31 year old woman of Nasole, Nasinu and her sister allegedly facilitated the travel of 17 Fijian citizens who were exploited through slavery and became victims of human trafficking in Auckland, New Zealand and the alleged offence took place in 2014.
The two had been operating a travel agent business from Nina Street, Suva and are alleged to have placed an advertisement in one of the newspapers about employment opportunities in New Zealand.
Victims were allegedly exploited in New Zealand as the suspects organised and facilitated the exit of the victims from Fiji, and in facilitating the exit were reckless as to whether the victims will be exploited.
The victims were allegedly exploited through forced labour to work in unfavourable weather conditions, less or no wage and living conditions where male and female victims had to share one room.
Both suspects had remitted and received more than $83,000 to and from New Zealand from an accomplice Faroz Ali who was convicted in New Zealand for human trafficking offences with an imprisonment sentence of 9 years and 6 months.
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