Praneeta Prakash 
The Suva Magistrates Court has allowed a businessman facing a charge of bribery to travel overseas for a business trip.
Jason Zhong is one of two accused facing corruption-related charges laid by the Fiji Independent Commission against Corruption.
He is charged together with Solomone Keteravu.
Zhong’s counsel Barbara Malimali had applied for the stop departure order issued against her client to be lifted.
Malimali assured the court that he will return every time he leaves.
It is alleged that Keteravu, while employed as an assistant estate officer at the iTaukei Land Trust Board on or about 1st December 2018, accepted an advantage of $300 in Nadi.
Keteravu is facing an alternative charge of accepting an advantage of $300 from Zhong.
Zhong is alleged to have offered $300 to Keteravu on account of the latter performing an act in his capacity as a public servant.
The matter has been adjourned to 24th September.
