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charged him with professional misconduct over his role in the 2000 coup, accusing him of sedition and treason. In March 2003 he was accused by the prosecution in
Speight's trial of being an integral part of the coup. Later that month he was arrested and charged with taking an illegal oath to commit a
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Queensland and post`graduate diploma in legal practice from A.N.U Canberra, Australia. Later received his master's degree in Law from the University of London, England. After returning to Fiji, he served as a state prosecutor for four years under the
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On 5 August 2004 he was convicted of taking an unlawful oath and sentenced to six years imprisonment. On 6 December 2004 he was formally expelled from
Parliament for nonattendance. The seat was filled without a by-election in June 2005.
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capital offence. In April 2003 he was banned from practicing law for professional misconduct. At his trial he claimed he had cooperated with the coup as he thought that
Speight had effective control of the country.
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Secretary for the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji. In an ironic twist, he was later to be convicted and sentenced for coup-related offences by Shameem, by then a judge.
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Vakalalabure appealed against his sentence, and in June 2006 the
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Field, Michael; Baba, Tupeni; Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi (2005).
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34:House of Representatives of Fiji
609:"Fiji coup president convicted"
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171:from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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