Word: fiji
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...from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley wanted to know how Kenneth Copeland--who as a church leader pays no taxes but is expected to plow revenue back into the public welfare--got a private plane and whether flights to Hawaii and Fiji qualified as business trips. Grassley sought credit card receipts and the numbers of the church's offshore bank accounts...
...Grassley's letter requested Copeland and his wife's credit card records and information on all offshore banking accounts; receipts for their planes (The Ft. Worth Star Telegram reports that FAA records show Copeland owns three planes and his ministry has several more) and whether trips to Hawaii and Fiji on a ministry plane were for business reasons. Grassley also wants the specifics of a reported deal whereby the ministry - which possesses considerable mineral rights - allegedly used them to "capitalize" a for-profit company. All the questions seem aimed at determining whether Copeland had broken the tax laws regarding...
...time Khan was in hospital with a reported broken jaw and ribs; he had not been charged. Police said he had resisted arrest. Eleven men had appeared in court on charges of incitement to mutiny and conspiracy to murder. In a statement, Bainimarama said there were "disgruntled groups" in Fiji who "have the potential to go to extremes" to undermine his government...
...After the arrests, Fiji's police chief accused unnamed "lurking nations" of interfering in Fiji; Bainimarama later said there was no evidence Australia or New Zealand had any role in the alleged plot...
Born in Budapest, Munk immigrated to Canada in his teens, after World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before launching a consumer-electronics firm in the 1950s, only to see it succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods...