The trial date has been set for Managing Director of Houng Lee Kaba Jacob Limited and former Director of Telecom Fiji Limited, Sanjay Kaba from April 7th to 13th next year.
Kaba appeared before Magistrate Charles Ratakele this morning.
FICAC Counsel, Nimisha Shankar says they will be calling about 10 to 15 witnesses.
Defence counsel, Vasu Pillay says about 4 or 5 of those are directors so won't really be cross examined.
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.
