Managing Director of Houng Lee Kaba Jacob Limited and former Director of Telecom Fiji Limited, Sanjay Kaba has pleaded not guilty to a charge of allegedly obtaining a financial advantage.
Kaba has been granted a bail variation to travel out of Fiji as he has met all the prerequisites.
The State counsel did not object to the bail variation application.
Defence counsel, Vasu Pillay informed the court that Kaba will be travelling from the 1st of March and will return on the 18th of March.
Magistrate Krishan Prasad says the stop departure against Kaba has been temporarily lifted, and the court will be releasing his passport for travel purposes.
Kaba and the two sureties have paid $25,000 each as bail bond, while Kaba's mother has deposited her passport with the court.
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 the director for HLK Jacob.
The matter has been adjourned to the 19th of March.
