Speaker of Parliament, La'auli Leuatea Polata’ivao, is involved in a Court dispute over the handling of finances in a nonu juice company of which he is a director.
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The Associate Minister for the Ministry of the Prime Minister, Peseta Vaifou Tevaga, who is also a director of the company, is fighting for a Court injunction against La’auli and two other respondents.
The lawyer representing Peseta, Leulua’ialii Olinda Woodrooffe, told Radio New Zealand International that the action comes after a dispute over payments of a company loan from the Samoa National Provident Fund (S.N.P.F), of which Peseta’s land is being used as security.
“Peseta who is a 50 percent shareholder in directorship is denied the right to have any access to financial records, denied the right to go inside the premises of the company when he owns the land the company used to guarantee a loan from the bank.”
Leulua’ialii says if the injunction were successful it would put the company’s operations on hold.
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