BY ROMINAH FAKA
The case against a man arrested by Janus for alleged false pretence and forgery has been adjourned for December 31.
Crisbane Hebala, 47, is facing 11 counts of false pretence and 18 counts of uttering a forged document.
The matter was mentioned at the Honiara Magistrate court yesterday but prosecution said it was yet to obtain certain documents which would be served to the defence.
Court adjourned the case for December 31 to allow prosecution time to collect the outstanding documents and serve them to defence.
Allegations said the accused committed the offences in 2021, 2022 and 2023 when he was the sales manager of Raretech Enterprise, a Honiara based business which supplies ICT equipment and services.
Hebala allegedly provided multiple false invoices from competitors to the Ministry of Mines Energy and Rural Electrification in order to ensure that Raretech Enterprises provided the lowest quotation for goods and services and ultimately win contracts to supply ICT equipment to the Ministry.
John Wesley Zoze represents the crown and George Gray represents Habala.
