Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva, a one-time right-hand man to former Fiji coup leader and prime minister Frank Bainimarama, is alleged to have been involved in the violent beating of two Fijian ...

Ben Naliva, his alleged torturer and now a colonel ... the soldier – still reputedly loyal to the previous regime of Frank Bainimarama – was the military officer most able to stage a coup ...

A one-time right-hand man to former Fiji coup leader and prime minister Frank Bainimarama ... Naliva would not remain in this position”, an ADF spokesman told The Australian. Colonel Penioni ...

Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva, a Bainimarama loyalist, is regarded in Fiji as the officer most able to stage a coup against an already unstable government. The Australian and Fijian governments ...

The Australian Defence Force faces a growing crisis amid demands for a formal investigation into how Col­onel Penioni (Ben) Naliva ... and prime minister Frank Bainimarama, was placed in command ...

Fiji's former prime minister Frank Bainimarama will spend the night in police custody after being charged with abuse of office. Fiji Police allege that in September 2011 Mr Bainimarama "recklessly ...

In short: The Magistrates Court gave Frank Bainimarama a reprieve from jail time, citing health concerns. Earlier this month a higher court found him guilty of attempting to pervert the course ...

Fiji’s former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama was on Thursday sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, the country’s director of public prosecutions said.

Frank Bainimarama, who was Fiji’s prime minister for some 15 years until losing power in 2022, has been jailed for a year after he was found guilty of using his position to shut down a ...

SYDNEY : Fiji's former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama pleaded not guilty in a Suva court on Friday after being charged with abuse of office and held in police custody overnight.

Bainimarama served as PM more than 15 years until he was voted out in 2022 Fiji's long-serving former prime minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for obstructing a ...

May 9 (Reuters) - Fiji's former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama was on Thursday sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, the country's director of public ...