The two Fiji officials who slipped into Australia to attend the Cairns Pacific Leaders Forum are products of Fiji junta’s new dual citizenship scheme.
The programme allows a person to hold a Fijian passport and another foreign country’s passport as Permanent Resident or citizen of that foreign country.
In this particular case, sources have reported that the two Fiji military regime officials applied for Solomon Islands citizenship all paid for by Fiji’s taxpayers money, while they maintained their Fijian passport under the dual citizenship scheme.
Solomon Islands government immediately stamped their citizenship application, with the full knowledge that it was going to be used by the duo to access Australia.
This was followed by the issuance of their Solomon Islands passport which they eventually used to gain access to Australia.
Sources have also reported that the two attended the Forum disguished as Solomon Islands observers.
Their Forum registration was facilitated by the Solomon Islands government as members of their delegation.
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