Suva Magistrate Jioji Boseiwaqa has found a former Examiner of Trademarks and Patents, Simione Seeto guilty for two counts of soliciting and accepting an advantage.
The Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption had charged Seeto in 2014.
Seeto, while being employed as an Examiner of Trademarks and Patents at the Office of the Trademarks and Patents asked and accepted $40 from the complainant as lunch money.
Seeto came in contact with the complainant when he had applied for a trademark registration at the Office of Trademarks and Patents for his business.
On another occasion Seeto asked the complainant for $100.
He will be sentenced next Wednesday.
