The Jet, an online community newspaper, published a response from Vodafone Board Chair, Lionel Yee, whose statement cleared any lingering doubts to the story and further eroded any remaining credibility that the blog C4.5 and its affiliates had.
The excerpt of Jet Newspaper online article:
It has come to the attention of the management of Vodafone Fiji Limited that certain blog sites have published information about its Managing Director and Vodafone Fiji which are defamatory, libelous, and false.
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Vodaphone Fiji, Managing Director Aslam Khan
Mr Aslam Khan has been at the helm of Vodafone Fiji for the last seventeen years with an impeccable record and distinguished professional career. He is a respected business executive and member of the community.As a result it has become necessary to issue a statement in response to these false published statements.Accordingly, Vodafone Fiji states the following:
No military personnel in the history of Vodafone Fiji, throughout Fiji’s history of political instability, have ever been permitted to neither enter our exchange nor monitor calls.Vodafone Fiji does not have the technological capabilities to allow mobile phones to be tapped or intercepted.Nor is there any legislation in Fiji that permits the Interception or monitoring of calls by state agents unlike countries such as Australia and New Zealand which have Interception Act.Mobile phone billing records are only released to the Director CID’s office on production of a court order such as [a] search warrant.Statement Issued and signed by:Mr. Lionel YeeBoard ChairmanVodafone Fiji Limited
- Aslam Khan has never been detained in the United States.
- Aslam Khan has never been frisked in the United States by Stage Agents of the United States at anytime;
- Neither Aslam Khan nor Vodafone is involved in financing terrorist activities or terrorism.
About Vodafone Fiji:Vodafone Fiji Limited is part of Vodafone Group Plc, a leading mobile communications company with over 335 million proportionate customers worldwide.
Vodafone Fiji is a partnership with Amalgamated Telecom Holding Fiji and is the pioneer and largest mobile telecommunications network provider in country. The global company has equity interests in 32 countries and partner networks in a further 52 countries, the largest global footprint.
