The trial for the matter where MP and former Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad is charged by FICAC will be held from the 10th to the 14th of August.
Professor Prasad appeared before Magistrate Yogesh Prasad this morning.
FICAC lawyer Joseph Work says they will have 4 witnesses while Professor Prasad’s lawyer Richard Naidu has indicated that if there is a case to answer then he will have 2 witnesses.
Professor Prasad has been charged by FICAC with two offences relating to alleged non-disclosure in his 2015 statutory declaration as an office holder of the National Federation Party.
FICAC alleges that on or about 30th December 2015, Professor Prasad failed to declare his directorship in Platinum Hotels & Resorts PTE Limited in his declaration of assets, liabilities and income submitted to the Registrar of Political Parties, allegedly breaching the Political Parties Act.
He is also charged with providing false information in a statutory declaration, with FICAC claiming that the omission of the directorship made the declaration materially false.
