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| | Radio Australia - News - Solomon Islands former prime minister charged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Our reporter, Sean Dorney, says at the time of the alleged offences in early 2001, Ezekiel Alebua was premier of the Guadalcanal Province but earlier in his political career, in the late 1980s, he had been prime minister. |
 | | Mr Alebua has been charged with four counts of larceny over the alleged diversion of the equivalent, at the time, of about $US77,000, to his own private purposes. |
 | | The money was part of a compensation package paid to the Guadalcanal provincial government by the Solomon Islands government, which was to be distributed to relatives of 25 Guadalcanal people who had been murdered in the years leading up to the outbreak of the ethnic troubles. |
| www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1429716.htm (226 words) |
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