DUAL CITIZENSHIP - A SAIL FROM ACROSS THE SEAS:
In July 2009, the Interim Bainimarama-Khaiyum regime approved dual citizenship, with Aiyaz Khaiyum claiming that several former Fiji citizens wanted to continue to have an attachment with their country of birth, and this new decree would give them the right. All one had to do was pay $3,000 in fee. One wonders whether the move had more sinister motives, to allow those who for decades had made new lives and fortunes overseas, to return to Fiji and become the illegal regime's spies, choir boys, and enforcers. One most high profile is Mahmood Khan, who on retirement, returned to Fiji in 2016. He is Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's UNCLE. But instead of enjoying his retirement, he suddenly began popping up on various statutory boards. A Public Service Commission profile notes: "Mahmood presently services as a Director of the Pacific Fishing Company Pte Ltd and Fiji Revenue &Amp; Customs Services and a member of the Council of the University of the South Pacific. He also chairs the Audit and Risk Committees of all three Boards. He retains a number of positions as consultant with entities in New Zealand."
Strangely, the above is no longer accessible on the PSC website.
In recent months he has shot to fame after he compiled a Report against USP VCP Professor Pal Ahluwalia, resulting in his nephew holding back Fiji's $37million grant to USP. Last week, before he "disappeared" from Fiji, Aiyaz Khaiyum stated in Parliament that the FFP government’s grant to USP will only be released once the USP Council accepts their request to have an independent investigation on the report made by the Chair of the USP Audit and Risk Committee Mahmood Khan. Khaiyum said they have requested for an independent body to look into the number of anomalies under Professor Pal Ahluwalia that were raised by Khan in his report but the request was not approved by the USP Council. BLACKMAIL? What are the 30 plus allegations in the "Khan Report?" Some were very cunningly put out by Fiji Sun, without the paper disclosing that they are in the 'Khan Report'. 'All these allegations have been gathered from well placed USP sources'. They were spiced up with photographs of the individuals by the Fiji Sun. Fijileaks will reveal Khan's 30 plus allegations that very closely mirror with the Fiji Sun revelations
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