Ashok Kumar (58) is serving seven years in prison for one count of trafficking in person, when he lured a 36-year-old woman from Fiji under the pretence of a potential hotel employment opportunity in Nuku’alofa, last year.
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Monday 22 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Monday 22 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Penisimani Fisi’ihoi (43) is serving one year and six months imprisonment for obtaining $20,000 from a complainant, who was made to believe that he was surrendering over his town allotment in Kolomotu’a by falsifying a letter and stamp of the Ministry of Lands.
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Wednesday 17 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Piisi Finau (31) was found guilty on four counts that included dangerous driving, when he crashed a Range Rover into a power pole causing the deaths of two of his passengers and injuring another two, at Nualei in 2022.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Christopher Tupe (20) is serving one year and four months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm, when he attacked a 25-year-old complainant with a machete, after a fist fight at a bar in ‘Eua earlier this year.
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Thursday 11 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Siokatame Kupu (28) is serving six months in prison for possession of drugs utensils found on him in a police drugs operation at Matangiake earlier in May. He had just been released from prison before being sent back to prison for this offence.
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Wednesday 10 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A former senior customs officer, Mosese Katoa (58), is serving two years in prison on charges that included the importation of prohibited goods. When firearms concealed in a crate arrived in Tonga in 2023 he also attempted to bribe another Customs Officer to avoid the scanner.
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Wednesday 10 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Repeat offender, Funaki ‘Otuhouma (32) is serving two years in prison on serious housebreaking, theft of goods valued at around $15,806 and serious wilful damage. He also breached a suspended sentence which was added to his sentence.
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Tuesday 9 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An appeal by the Minister of Lands against a Land Court’s ruling that he made a mistake when issuing a deed of grant to a tiny piece of land in 'Utungake, Vava'u to a leaseholder, instead of the adjoining owner, was rejected by the Appeal Court recently.
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Thursday 4 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Rodney Tomasi (41) was found guilty on possession of 3,547.86 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a sack of sugar that was imported in a barrel from the United States last year. Shots were fired by Police in pursuit of accused, after he took possession of the drugs. He is expected to be sentenced in January, next year.
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Wednesday 3 December 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A former Prime Minister, Feleti Sevele, (Lord Sevele) won his appeal against the dismissal of his defamation case against three respondents in a radio program back in 2022. The Appeal Court has ordered a retrial.
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Thursday 27 November 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Saimone Vaka’s appeal arguing that his sentence was manifestly excessive was dismissed by the Appeal Court. He is currently serving two years six months imprisonment for the theft of meat valued at around $307,050.
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Wednesday 26 November 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fatafehi Tomasi’s appeal against his sentence was dismissed by the Appeal Court. He is currently serving 10 months in prison for driving a motor vehicle causing bodily harm to his passenger, while under the influence of alcohol, more than four times over the legal limit.
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Tuesday 25 November 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An appeal by Viliami Makahokovalu Tuputupu, the former master of the M.V. ‘Otuanga’ofa, against his two-year prison sentence, was dismissed by the Appeal Court in Nuku'alofa.
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Tuesday 25 November 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A Tongan man and two Chinese nationals were fined $10,000 pa’anga each, after they pleaded guilty to two counts that included unlawful possession of 14,754 beche-de-mer (sea cucumber) in Talau, Vava'u, while a moratorium on its fishing was in place.
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Thursday 30 October 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Ursula Primrose Havili (34) is serving one year’s imprisonment after being found guilty on numerous counts of obtaining $52,550 by false pretences from six customers that she would order their vehicles from Japan, in a web of deception.
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Thursday 30 October 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Repeat offender, Siosaia Lata Funaki, is serving five years and five months, in prison after pleading guilty to three counts that included theft of meat from a business in Ma’ufanga and armed robbery of a foreigner, who was punched in the mouth before his iPhone and money were stolen.
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Thursday 23 October 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Viliami Kaufusi won his case as rightful heir to a tax allotment in Leimatu’a, Vava’u, and succeeded in his bid to evict Mano Lisala and his descendants who, the court found, were unlawfully occupying and farming on his land.
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Thursday 2 October 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Kilisitina Finau (34) is serving two years in prison for charges that includes possession of 484.43 grams of cannabis. Her 23 year old co-offender, Lesieli Makasini received a suspended sentence, after being found guilty on possession of lesser amount of the illicit drugs.
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Thursday 18 September 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Penisoni Tu’ifua Angilau (37) is serving 10 years in prison for four charges that included supplying 534.53 grams of methamphetamine to his second cousin to pack the illicit drug at her residence in Lomaiviti, Tongatapu, in March last year. Police seized cash totalling $90,125 and a Ford Ranger Vehicle, which the court forfeited to the Crown.
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Thursday 18 September 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Vili Lausi’i (46) is serving three months in prison for pointing a loaded .22 semi-automatic rifle at a couple who were driving in Lapaha, while he was assisting a community night patrol in December last year. He was sent to jail by the Lord Chief Justice, who was concerned with the increase of the negative use of arms in the society and to deter others from this behaviour.
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