A prominent New Caledonian businessman and a French Polynesian union leader will face the criminal court in Tahiti after a nine-year investigation into alleged active and passive corruption.
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A prominent New Caledonian businessman Bill Ravel and a French Polynesian union leader Cyril Legayic will face the criminal court in Tahiti after a nine-year investigation into alleged active and passive corruption.
Mr Ravel had been alleged to have paid Mr Legayic $US160,000 in cash over four years to contain strikes at his companies in Papeete.
The two have already been jailed for weeks in 2012 as part of the probe into the payments.
According to a report by Tahiti Nui TV, four of Mr Ravel's staff will also be tried at a date yet to be set.
One of the four, Gaston Tetuanui, is alleged to have diverted some of the money meant to be paid to Mr Legayic who at the time was the secretary general of the confederation of independent unions.
In a separate charge, Mr Legayic is accused of misappropriating union funds by spending some of them for his personal benefit.
