A new trial date has been set for Ratu Isoa Tikoca who is charged with failure to declare his liabilities.
This is contrary to section 24 of the Political Parties Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures Decree.
The trial was to have started today but Prosecution lawyers requested the court for another date as one of their witnesses was away overseas attending to certain commitments.
The Defence lawyer did not object to the request.
Magistrate Makereta Mua has now set the trial date from the 9th to 13th of January, 2017.
It is alleged that Tikoca failed to declare the liability and the amount of the liability to the Registrar and the Permanent Secretary Responsible for Elections that he had incurred to the Government of Fiji during his tenure as Fiji’s High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea.