The fugitive Australian lawyer, Julian Moti, who fled from Papua New Guinea to Solomons islands early this morning, has been flown to Honiara in a police chartered helicopter.
Mr Moti had been questioned throughout the day by immigration officials in Munda in Western Province after flying in early this morning on what is believed to have been an unauthorised PNG Defence Force flight.
Senior PNG officials have denied knowledge of the military flight.
Mr Moti, who was recently appointed and then suspended as Solomons attorney-general, is wanted by Australian authorities over alleged sex offences against a 13-year-old girl in Vanuatu in 1997.
He has been hiding in the Solomon Islands High Commission in the Papua New Guinea capital, Port Moresby, after jumping bail to avoid being returned to Australia.
Canberra had earlier cancelled his Australian passport.
Our correspondent, Dorothy Wickham, says Mr Moti emerged from the helicopter in handcuffs as were his three travelling companions.
She says the government has indicated he will be charged.
"From what we understand from the Foreign Affairs minister he will be taken into detention and I think formal charges laid against him for travelling without proper documentation."
The Solomon Islands opposition leader, Fred Fono, says the Solomon Islands government appears to have committed a criminal offence in flying Mr Moti into the country.
We have already got the information that the Civil Aviation Office were not aware of that arrangement. It now looks like the Prime Minister's involvement looks like a criminal activity rather than following the laws of the country.
Meanwhile, Mr Fono says a vote of no confidence in the prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, which had been dropped from the agenda for the current session of parliament is now set to be held tomorrow.
