The Suva Magistrates Court has rejected the application by FICAC to produce former Registrar of Political Parties Mohammed Saneem as a witness but has accepted the true copy of the earlier disputed documents in former Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad’s trial.
Defence counsel Richard Naidu claims that the prosecution has not fully disclosed everything that pertains to the case.
Naidu says that FICAC is pulling two witness statements from an earlier case file while the other two witness statements are from a newer file.
Magistrate Yogesh Prasad has asked FICAC counsel Joseph Work to consult with the Investigation Officer responsible for putting the prosecution file together.
Magistrate Prasad has also asked for the Investigation Officer to be produced in court this afternoon to be questioned on the witness statements on file.
Professor Prasad is charged with failure to comply with statutory disclosure requirements contrary to section 24 (5) of the Political Parties Act.
