Former Manager of Project Controls at the Fiji Roads Authority, Ripon Baral and Aktar Ali have been granted bail by Suva Magistrate Shageeth Somaratne.
Baral is charged with one count of abuse of office, one count of falsification of documents, and one count of bribery, while Ali is charged with one count of bribery.
It is alleged that between 1 October 2017 and 31 January 2018, while employed by the FRA, Baral prepared a Tender Submission Bid on behalf of Naboutini Transport for a project involving the construction of seven footpaths in the Western Division.
Baral is alleged to have dishonestly falsified the tender submission for Naboutini Transport.
Ali is alleged to have offered certain advantages to Baral as an inducement or reward for, or otherwise on account of, Baral performing or abstaining from performing an act in his capacity as a public servant.
Principal Counsel for FICAC, Lilian Mausio informed the court that the first phase of disclosures had been served to both.
She further stated that the prosecution did not object to bail but requested that strict bail conditions be imposed.
Magistrate Somaratne ordered the accused to surrender their travel documents, not interfere with State witnesses, not change their residential addresses, and report to their nearest FICAC office once a month.
The matter has been adjourned to November 6th.
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