Fiji's finance minister plans to sue the Pacific island country's leading newspaper for US$660 million (euro440 million) for alleging that he evaded taxes, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry's suit against the Fiji Times would be filed in the Fiji High Court "within the next few days," Chaudhry's lawyer Gyaneshwar Lala said in a statement.
The defamation suit against the newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., would be the latest pressure placed on the media by Fiji's military-backed government, which critics accuse of trying to intimidate the press.
Last week, the publisher of a different newspaper was …
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