A 51-year-old man allegedly linked to the tampering of the drug exhibits at the Suva High Court has been charged with one count of Interfering with Evidence and one count of Unlawful Possession of Illicit Drugs.
Police confirm he will appear in the Suva Magistrates Court today.
fijivillage News can confirm that the man is the husband of the former Judicial Department employee who is now overseas.
Investigations continue with regards to the alleged involvement of others.
This case came to light after fijivillage News questioned Police on whether cocaine from the Joshua Aziz Rahman case was missing.
We had enquired about it and on 15th September, a physical check was done, after which it was confirmed by Police that 7 bars of cocaine were missing from the Rahman cocaine exhibit.
fijivillage News then received confirmation a few days later that the remaining 32 bars were tested for flour.
Those drugs were tested twice before the case, and it was confirmed to be cocaine which means they were replaced with flour.
Following this, it was also confirmed by the Police that 12 kilograms of cocaine was missing from March this year from the John Nikolic drug case.
However this information was not made public until the recent case.
All these drug exhibits were kept at the Suva High Court Exhibit Room, and the missing cocaine is valued at more than $50 million.
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