Sanjay Kaba's bail variation matter stood down to this afternoon

Managing Director of Houng Lee Kaba Jacob Limited and former Director of Telecom Fiji Limited, Sanjay Kaba who is charged with one count of obtaining a financial advantage, is seeking bail variation to travel overseas next month for his business trip.

Magistrate Krishan Prasad has allowed the bail variation from the 7th to the 17th of March.

Magistrate Prasad has ordered Kaba and the two sureties to deposit $25,000 each as bail bond and Kaba's mother to deposit her passport to the court.

Defence counsel, Vasu Pillay also informed the court that Kaba intends to travel in April and May this year.

The State counsel says they were not aware of the other dates, and she will need to get instructions on this.

The matter has been stood down to 2.30 this afternoon.

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.