A senior executive at the Fiji National Rugby League (FNRL) is under police investigation for alleged sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
The allegations have surfaced just three weeks out from the Fiji Bati’s opening game against the Cook Islands at the 2026 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC).<\/p>\n
FNRL life member and the founder of the code in Fiji, Culden Kamea, said a woman working at the FNRL office had made two allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
He said the allegations were now being investigated by the Fiji Police Force.<\/p>\n
In a lengthy statement, Kamea said the two incidents allegedly occurred at the FNRL head office during working hours on 27 August and 7 September.<\/p>\n
A complaint was subsequently lodged with the FNRL board on 16 September, he said.<\/p>\n
The complaint was also emailed to the executive chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission and National Rugby League (NRL), Peter V’landys.<\/p>\n
Kamea said the FNRL board received a strong email response from V’landys on 16 September, advising the board that the complaint must be shown “the appropriate level of care, seriousness, independence, diligence and transparency”.<\/p>\n
The director was suspended on 17 September, pending the board’s investigation.<\/p>\n
Kamea said the FNRL must stop its own investigation and hand the case to police to allow them to carry out their investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n
“I did not know the complainant but, on reading the detail of her 16 September complaint, I wrote to the FNRL Board that same night to recommend that they act with sensitivity and understanding, mindful of their statutory responsibilities to both parties,” he said.<\/p>\n
“After sending that email, I spoke with the director. I understand the alleged victim has been suspended from work and her pay stopped.”<\/p>\n
The director concerned said he would not comment at this stage and would allow the investigation to be conducted.<\/p>\n
The off-field incident comes at a time when the FNRL is preparing the Fiji Bati and Fiji Bulikula for the RLWC, which starts on 15 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior executive at the Fiji National Rugby League (FNRL) is under police investigation for alleged sexual harassment.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-901909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}