{"id":305220,"date":"2026-02-27T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:12:16","slug":"charlie-charters-files-for-bail-variation-to-travel-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305220\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Charters files for bail variation to travel overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fijian and British national, Charlie Charters has filed for a bail variation this afternoon in the Suva Magistrates Court to allow him to travel to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Charters&#8217; counsel, Seforan Fatiaki says his client needs to travel to Australia for work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He appeared before Magistrate Shageeth Somaratne this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>FICAC Counsel objected to the variation and\u00a0Magistrate\u00a0Somaratne told them to file a formal objection on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate\u00a0Somaratne says he will deliver his ruling on the bail variation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Charters was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting under the Crimes Act by FICAC on Monday and is currently on bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fijian and British national, Charlie Charters has filed for a bail variation this afternoon in the Suva Magistrates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167015,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-305220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-court-photo-video","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}