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The Fijian government is negotiating a secret deal with the country's highest-ranking judge after he was accused of corruption in a damning Commission of Inquiry (COI) last year.
Chief Justice Salesi Temo is part of a high-profile clique the inquiry found to have allegedly lied under oath, and obstructed and perverted the course of justice. There were six members of government and four lawyers implicated in the investigation.
Public prosecutors last week threw out all 12 police investigations stemming from the COI due to insufficient evidence.
The inquiry, led by Australian judge David Ashton-Lewis, focussed on the hiring of Barbara Malimali, the former head of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC).
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