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\par Mr. J. Singh for the State
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\par }{\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 Date of Hearing:}{\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 22, 23 & 24 November 2010
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\par }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 [1]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 Salendra Sen Sinha, I have today handed down the sentence for the
 sixty-one counts you have been convicted of and this short sentence is but by way of an explanation of that official sentence.
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\par [2]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 
The official sentence (of 54 pages and 25 paragraphs) is the definitive sentence and should you appeal to the Fiji court of Appeal (which you must do within 30 days) then that sentence will be the docume
nt you and the appeal Court will rely on, and not this explanatory document.
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\par [3]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 You have pleaded guilty
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These offences all took place in a spree of crime undertaken by you and others in the middle of 2008.
\par 
\par [4]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 You held yourself out to be a representative of an Australian Mining Company and on the promise of jobs, you took money off 34
 young men as a visa fee.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 They did not get a visa, nor did they get a firm job offer, and of course they did not get their money back.}{
\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 Most of them paid $555 for the visa fee, money they could ill afford but in a time of high unemployment in Fiji they were desperate.}{
\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 These offences were cynical, calculating and despicable.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{
\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 For each of those 34 offences you are sentenced to 2 years 6 months to be served concurrently with each other.
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\par [5]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 Some of these men gave you their passports and in six cases you altered these passports by inserting photos of your
 friends instead of the original photos.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 This is forgery which you did and were convicted of six times.}{
\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 For these six passport forgeries you will also serve 2 years each concurrently.
\par 
\par [6]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 You stole eight FIRCA cheques from the Nadi Airport Post Office, and you then
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With the passport as an identity document, your friends whose photos were by now in the passport could then cash the cheques and get the money.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{
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For the theft of the FIRCA cheques you are sentenced to two years and for the passport forgeries and the cheque forgeries you are also sentenced to two years for each offence all to be served concurrently.
\par 
\par [7]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 A generous discount has been given to you to reflect your clear plea of guilty to all the charges.
\par 
\par [8]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 
You are convicted of five counts of obtaining money on these forged cheques and you are sentenced on each of these counts to two years imprisonment to be served concurrently.
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For the last count where you obtained for another, a large sum of FIRCA money on a forged instrument, you are sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment.
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\par [9]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 All sentences are to be served concurrently with each other, except for the six 
obtaining on a forged instrument counts (totaling 2 years and eight months) which will be served consecutively to the other sentences.
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\par [10]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 This means that you will go to prison for a total term of five years and two months.}{
\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 As you are a serious repeat offender (but not in law a }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057 "}{
\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 habitual offender}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057 "}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 
) and as you cynically extorted money from many impoverished jobseekers as well as the Fiji Government, I order that this sentence be served consecutive to any sentence presently being served by you.
\par 
\par [11]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 You will serve a minimum term of four years for these offences before being eligible for parole.}{
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\par [12]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057  }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12716057\charrsid12716057 Mr. Justice Goundar has already given you credit for time spent in custody (in HAC 46/08).
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