Agreed facts to be finalised for Sanjay Kaba's case

The agreed facts for Managing Director of Houng Lee Kaba Jacob Limited and former Director of Telecom Fiji Limited, Sanjay Kaba’s case of allegedly financially obtaining an advantage are to be finalised and filed.

Defence counsel Vasu Pillay says the pre-trial conference was held on the 15th of July.

Pillay says it would have been more productive if Kaba was with him before agreeing on the documents.

He adds that Kaba was asked to sit on a different floor.

State Counsel Nimisha Shankar has requested a short adjournment to file the agreed facts.

The matter has been adjourned to November 7th.

Magistrate Charles Ratakele will look to fix a hearing date on the next mention.

Kaba is charged with one count of obtaining a financial advantage.

It is alleged that Kaba between 27th January 2017 and 20th January 2019 whilst being a board member of Telecom Fiji Limited and Amalgamated Telecom Holdings Limited, engaged in conduct namely bidding for a tender through the company Houng Lee Kaba Jacob Limited for providing Project Management services to TFL for TFL's new office and data centre project, and as a result obtained a financial advantage amounting to $766,327.22 between June 2022 and July 2023, knowing that HLK Jacob was not eligible to receive the financial advantage as he had failed to declare his interest as director for HLK Jacob.