Hotel theft

Former hotel employee to be sentenced for theft and accounting fraud

Selemana Fonua was guilty of false accounting and theft after the Supreme Court found she was responsible for false documents namely spreadsheets with false names which are contrary to section 159 (a) of Criminal Offence Acts.

Kaniva News reports Judge Charles Cato convicted Fonua on 19 January on both charges.

Justice Cato said Fonua prepared the spreadsheets that caused Tanoa Fiji to pay a sum in wages to Tonga that enabled her to draw a cheque to pay for wages.

Court documents showed this took place seventeen times between 22 May and 11 December 2015.