Fiji must be protected from the actions of an elite law enforcement agency that has clearly gone rogue.
Those are the words of Fijian and British national, Charlie Charters who has written to the Judicial Services Commission.
Charters says he is one of a number of victims of the continued presence in office of the unlawfully appointed acting FICAC Commissioner Lavi Rokoika.
He says not only is Rokoika's appointment unlawful but she is being allowed, by the JSC and the President’s apparent slow playing of the resolution of her position, to do one unlawful thing after another against those citizens like him who might question her leadership of FICAC.
Charters says by her own actions, Rokoika has clearly gone rogue, yet nobody in a position to resolve this seems to care enough to actually do anything.
Charters highlighted a number of issues about his detention, and proper procedures not followed under the FICAC Act.
He says he will be pursuing this matter further, including, if necessary, against the Immigration Department, which would appear to have had no legal basis to detain him or deny his departure.
Charters stresses this is a gross abuse of FICAC’s powers of detention and arrest.
He says the Apple account of his wife Vanessa has been subject to sustained hacking attempts which started almost as soon as he was detained at Nadi Airport early on the afternoon of Saturday February 21st.
Charters says the first hacking attempt was made concurrent with his interview and subsequent arrest in the Nadi Airport police interview room.
He says it is hard to believe that the timing of the start of the hacking attempts is a coincidence and unrelated to the FICAC investigation of him - especially as his wife has had no previous hacking attempts on her Apple account for more than 15 years.
Charters says he and his lawyer have already placed on record on multiple occasions their clear intentions to pursue civil damages against FICAC, and on a personal basis against Rokoika and the officers she leads.
He says everyone has known categorically and since February 2nd that every search, arrest, detention and charging warrant and stop order issued by Rokoika has been unlawful, yet the JSC continues to show an extraordinary tolerance of, or at least ambivalence towards, bringing Rokoika’s tenure to the urgent close that this situation demands.
Charters has said in the letter to the JSC that their indulgence of the President or his advisors and the reported attempts to negotiate and finesse Rokoika’s exit could be seen as utterly bizarre if it was not so constitutionally challenging.
He says he feels obliged to raise these issues directly with the JSC as the body ultimately responsible for FICAC’s leadership.
Charters says these issues are now compounding and will only become more and more intractable as the JSC's inaction continues.
