The Holonga Vavaʻu Development Committee has yet to receive the TP$23,000 refund from Filimone Toʻaho and his Super Cheap car dealership despite a court order.
The money was supposed to be paid after Super Cheap promised it would provide a passenger bus bought by the Committee.
The dealership failed to deliver the promised vehicle.
In a court document seen by Kaniva News, Lord Chief Justice Owen Paulsen approved the application by the plaintiff to force a refund.
The judge ordered that Toʻaho, trading as Super Cheap Tonga, pay $23,000 together with interest thereon at the rate of 10% per annum from April 30, 2016 until the money was paid.
“The plaintiff Is awarded costs and disbursements in the sum of TP$1117,” Lord Chief Justice Paulsen said..
The ruling was made in August, but the Committee has yet to receive the money.
Committee member Mapa Taumālolo said they paid To’aho and his company TP$33,000 in 2014 for the bus.
When he failed to deliver the bus the Committee confronted him, but he only paid back TP$10,000.
Taumālolo said they had planned to take Toʻaho and his company back to court.
Toʻaho is expected to re-appear in court on November 14 as part of a fraud case.
He appeared in Nukuʻalofa Magistrate’s Court on October 3 accused of defrauding his clients of more than TP$70,000 .
Autorec Enterprise Ltd, a Japanese vehicle provider which imports vehicles direct from Japan, took Tōʻaho and his car dealership to court.
To’aho could not be reached for comment.
The main points
- The Holonga Vava’u Development Committee has yet to receive the TP$23,000 refund from Filimone To’aho and his Super Cheap car dealership despite a court order.
- In August the Supreme Court ordered the money be paid after Super Cheap promised it would provide a passenger, but failed to deliver the promised vehicle.
- Committee member Mapa Taumalolo said they paid To’ha and his company TP$33,000 in 2014 for the bus.
- When he failed to deliver the bus the Committee confronted To’ha, who refunded only TP$10,000.
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