Outrageous Fiji salaries questioned

 

Try as the regime may to ignore the issue, this story will not go away .

Salary payments via Hawaladar enables offshore tax havens

Aunty Nur

More  information on how Bainimarama and Kaiyum are moving their slush funds around have continued to emerge. The consistent rumours and stories continue to get louder as it seems that the regime's influential, trusted and well connected Nur Bano Ali is more than Bainimarama's pay mistress.

We are hearing that the Hawaladar system enables Nur, Bainimarama and Kaiyum to move their funds quietly to their overseas tax haven accounts. 

We hear also that certain of the Gang of 6 have purchased a penthouse in Sydney and another is investing in a restaurant in the same city. Bainimarama has a military trained son that is operating the Fijian end of an international and national security force which is not cheap to set up (and which in time will also become 'Daddy's' private army). Hardware such as guns and associated training equipment and operational venues are expensive to initialise, but capital expenditure to realise these objectives are easily traded so that excess funds are kept under the radar.

Associated with money moving to Dubai and Hong Kong are the recent regime 'initiatives' to recruit Fiji citizens to private security jobs and to housekeeping and nanny roles in the same countries. Our investigations continue, and anyone else with additional information is invited to contact us.

Reserve Bank enables big budget Invoicing

Apart from the methods of Hawaladar, the Reserve Bank allows one to get around 'restrictions' and cover their footprints by merely writing out an Invoice. Qorvis too must clearly be pleased.

Nur Bano Ali is also Bainimarama's black Hawaladar despite tweaked regulations and rhetoric from the respected and trusted head of the Fiji's FIU (Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit) Razim Buksh.

The public would love to know just how much space the elephant in his office is taking up and how much of the animal he has been told to ignore.

Financial Regulations and the Law

What is the value of any of our legal financial safeguards when the junta is in the habit of altering any law or regulation it doesn’t like any time it sees fit?

Fond of trotting out decrees for this and quoting decrees ad infinitum, Kaiyum is also quick to invoke "necessity" to get around things any time he thinks his Gang of 6 may be 'lawfully' restricted from doing what it wants to do. 

Fiji Dictator - Bainimarama

And without the checks and balances present like free media, a functional lower house answerable to Parliament, or Opposition parties to act as watchdog to those ad hoc policy changes, what guarantees are there really of any transparency or accountability to what they do ?

The answer is zero . Zero + zero = zero. 

So Fiji's taxpayers continue to be kept in the dark.

The magnitude of remittances that officially go through Fiji's licensed foreign exchange dealers are indicative of remittances that go through Fiji's Hawaladar. 

In most instances, Fiji's licensed dealers also perform unlicensed Hawaladar remittances, where money does not need to move across borders and remains 'under the radar'.  

This will only increase when the IMF call for exchange decontrol is implemented.

Not only is Fiji a recruitment ground for terrorism in direct contravention of UN Security Council Resolution, it has now become a financial mecca of the Hawaladar variety.

Although we cannot rely on the objectivity and impartiality of the Razim Buksh sanctioned Nur Bano Ali black Hawaladar, there will be no escape from international scrutiny.

I'm afraid the days of 'waraka namaka' are over. Bainimarama and his cronies will in a very short time be held to account.

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