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Department of Public Prosecution lawyer Laisani Tabuakoro arrives to attend the former Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama case in court. [AFP]
Former Fiji prime minister Frank Bainimarama was sentenced Thursday to one year in prison for perverting the course of justice, with a judge finding he used his political clout to shut down a police investigation.
Bainimarama was sentenced at Fiji's High Court in the capital Suva, after being found guilty this year of quashing a police probe into alleged corruption at a Fijian university.
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