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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman A one-time right-hand man to former Fiji coup leader and prime minister Frank Bainimarama, Colonel Naliva is alleged to have been involved in the violent ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, March 9 (Reuters) - Fiji's former prime minister Frank Bainimarama, who led the Pacific island nation for 16 years until narrowly losing an election in December, has been charged with ...