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Prominent Tongan pastor dies in Auckland

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Kaniva Staff
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The Tongan community in Auckland is mourning the death of Rev Sione Tavake Tupou.

Details surrounding the death of the 67-year-old were not immediately available to Kaniva News.

However a relative who did not want to be identified has confirmed that Rev Tupou passed on Saturday 16.

Rev Tupou was prominent in the Tongan Christian community in many respects but what was significantly stood out was when he strongly spoke out and opposed the appointment of a practicing homosexual into the Methodist leadership in New Zealand in 2012.

This was led to a breakaway of hundreds of Tongans from the mainstream Methodism and established a Methodist parish in Otahuhu known as Upper Room church under his leadership.

Rev Tupou also publicly spoke out on mainstream media against issues that linked to financial problems Pacific Island Christians had faced in what he described as it was because church leaders put their emphasis  on raising money from them to build large churches.

Sēfita Haoʻuli, a Tongan broadcaster and journalist in New Zealand has shared with us a tribute for the death of his former Tonga High School classmate.

“Sad to note the passing of colleague and former Tonga High School classmate, the Rev Sione Tavake Tupou here in Auckland. Born in 1948, the son of Ane and Tevita Etueni Tupou of Pangai, Lifuka Haapai.

“Got to know him when I boarded with an aunt as a 5 year old to go to Pangai Primary and we were neighbours. His mother Ane was a soft-spoken woman who was considered unusual in that she never hit her children. She offered sanctuary to many of us when things got too hot at home or at school. Tavake and I entered THS in 1959 as the only two 10 year olds from our school who “made it”.

“His elder brothers, ‘Etueni and Paula were also at THS at the time. We both came to Auckland as scholarship students and spent the late 60s and early 70s here in New Zealand where he took up an apprenticeship and became an electrician.

“He learned his craft when the government of the time were building the state houses of Otara and Mangere. He had his father’s musical talents and was the most accomplished guitar player at Atalanga hostel at the time. He also took money off most of us at poker only to give it all back as he was earning while learning his craft.

“Latterly, he led a breakaway ministry from mainstream Methodism and established a parish in Otahuhu and is survived by his widow Heu. Fellow 1959ers who will mark his passing will include lawyer Laki Niu, broadcaster Kalafi Moala, theologian Viliami Fukofuka in Tonga.

“In Auckland are retired sea captain Kepueli Funaki, travel agent, Totoa Laume and mechanical enginner, Sione Fakalata. Looking at a 1963 class photo and sadly more than half of the 1959ers are no longer with us”.

Warning: Graphic Video, Kid hit by van in Tokomololo

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Kaniva Staff
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The horrifying moment an unconscious boy was carried by a woman and put him in  a blue van  was captured on video.

In the  video – shot by a passenger in another vehicle which appeared to have arrived at the scene just as the incident happened – voices full of pity can be heard saying “Auee…faka’ofa…ki’i leka ‘ahai” (Oh…it’s a pity…whose kid is he).

Police said they received information that a child was hit by a vehicle yesterday at Tokomololo and was transported to Vaiola Hospital.

Nuku’alofa Police Superintendent Tevita Fifita told Kaniva News he was informed about the incident.

Fifita said no arrest has been made. He could not identify the victim or the driver of the vehicle that hit him. He also could not be able to confirm the condition of the boy saying police were still working on it.

Taake Fallday uploaded the video to Facebook and said this was a pitiful day for the family of the victim after he was struck by the vehicle right on the road at Tokomololo Government Primary School.

Crash blocks lanes on Tauʻafaʻāhau road, Police at the scene

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Kaniva Staff
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Traffic has been in a standstill at Tāufaʻāhau road in Poutaha after a crash this morning.

Apparently two cars  appear to have been involved in the accident, near the Poutasi store.

One car has lost its front wheel and they both remain blocking Nukuʻaofa bound lane as police examine the scene.

Tokolahi Hūhane one of the motorists who came by the incident said the collision has caused delays and long queues of traffic northbound on Tāufaʻāhau road.

Hilamani threatens to release names of overstayers as FBI investigating his company

By
Kalino Latu
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Dr Hilamani Hansen, whose company is being investigated by FBI for an alleged immigration scam, has threatened church leaders and overstayers in the United States he will release their names to US Homeland Security.

The Tongan owner of the controversial organization Americans Helping America made the threat, which he called a “Raid announcement” on his PNT television programme yesterday (January 13).

He said his office would hold a meeting on January 31 for its clients in California and demanded they all attend it.

“If you do not do that. We will gonna go down and gonna list all the pastors and ministers that are not in this meeting or come to this meeting and also their congregation and those that are not legal in this country then we have to hand over this list to the homeland security”, Hansen told viewers.

Hansen, who claims to have more than five million clients from Sacramento to Marin County in California, as well as Tonga and Fiji, claimed his company could get illegal immigrants their US citizenship if they paid him $5000 to $10,000 each.

He claimed he could do this under a programme he called Americans Helping America (AHA), under which it has claimed that illegal adult immigrants could get US citizenship if they were adopted by US citizens.

A US immigration attorney told Sacramento-based KCRA television news it was a “scam” as no one in the United State could get US citizenship through adult adoption law.

A number of Tongans in the United States told Kaniva News they paid thousands of dollar to Hansen’s company, but later withdrew because they kept being asked for more money, but did not get their citizenship.

FBI under search warrant entered Hansen’s Office in Sacramento and seized computers and office documents.

It has been revealed that the FBI has been investigating the company since February 2015 after they received complaints from clients of Hansen. They were looking for evidence of possible mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud undocumented immigrants.

Yesterday, in an occasionally incoherent speech, which Kaniva News has transcribed verbatim, Hansen told people watching his PNT Television programme he and his company had not done anything illegal.

“As you know the Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce has been attacked by a false complaint that put the American Helping America that battle there for a while,” Dr Hansen told viewers.

“I need you to understand this. We are not doing anything against the law. We are not doing anything against the people,” Hansen said.

“But if you are not coming in and come clean so we can help you then we have no choice but to give your name and your list thing, hand over to the Homeland Security so they can be able to look out  and can be able to check you out yourself”, Hansen warned viewers in the 12 minute programme which was later uploaded to Youtube.

“This meeting is to try to help everybody and also try to locate people who come from different churches so we know who you are and what church you come from and who supporting this programme,” he said.

Hansen claimed his company was associated with 5.5 million people whose immigration status in the United States was “illegal” or “undocumented.”

“We have opened our doors now for four years for everybody from adoption to immigration to all kind of things gonna help everybody, but it’s entirely up to you

“So I am asking you very kindly please come in on that day we gonna prepare whole different assistance and help to make sure you are protected and safe.  I guarantee that to you. I will make sure that you are protected and safe with all the legal paper works and documents that can help you and  assist you and identify you.

“If you don’t want to come and say for example you do not believe in what I am saying that is fine with me.

“But this is first, number one I will tell you this. If you do not come to this meeting then we know you do not want to stay here in America. This is basically what you are saying. If you don’t come to this meeting meaning you don’t want to stay here in America.

“You don’t want to follow the rules you do not want to follow anything.

“It gives us the chamber of commerce the right that we can be able to start sending list of people who do not want to be in America to the Homeland Security because we have been ordered by the Homeland Security to release all list of people that are around in our chamber of commerce.

“Secondly I am talking to the pastors, ministers, chief of tribes whatever in the Pacific Islands or any other countries that they have other people that are controlling a group of people and organisation leaders.

“I want you guys to listen very carefully. The leaders please encourage your people to come to this meeting and make sure your people come to this meeting. So they can get the help they can get”.

“We are not breaking the law. We are not doing anything wrong, we just want to obey the law of this country as we a chamber of commerce.

“So I am warning you ministers and pastors and all these people. If you are holding these people undocumented illegal people for any other purpose of making money out of that than it gonna be worse for yourself and also what you are doing than it become a scamming problem for you because that is not how it supposed to be.

“I am warning you because we trying to help the people but the people are holding back because some of you don’t believe and do not want to be part of it,”

Dr Hansen has promoted adult adoption for non-US citizens to several ethnic communities. A number of his videos have been uploaded to Youtube.

The main points

  • Dr Hilamani Hansen, whose company is being investigated by FBI for an alleged immigration scam, has threatened church leaders and overstayers in the United States he will release their names to US Homeland Security.
  • The Tongan owner of the controversial organization America Help Americans made the threat, which he called a “Raid announcement” on his PNT television programme yesterday (January 13.
  • Hansenclaimed his company could get illegal adult immigrants their US citizenship if they were adopted by US citizens.
  • A US immigration attorney told Sacramento-based KCRA television news it was a “scam” as no one in the United State could get US citizenship through adult adoption law.

For more information

FBI probes US-Tongan company involving alleged immigration scam, Tongan victims speak out

Americans Helping America home page

Manase arrested after alleged assaults of Auckland women

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Kaniva Staff
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‘Anitoni Manase Kalekele was alleged by police to have assaulted women in Auckland before he was arrested this afternoon.

Police discovered him sleeping under a bed in a Blockhouse Bay property.

He has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, injuring with intent and male assaults female.

Police said he will appear in the Auckland District Court tomorrow.

“The first assault occurred in Northcote on Sunday night, the victim suffered a stab wound to the back,” the spokeswoman told the NZHerald.

She was taken to hospital with minor injuries but was later released.

“The victim was assaulted around the head. She received medical treatment and was later discharged from hospital with facial swelling.”

According to the Herald Kalekale once made headlines as a boy for throwing an egg at John Key.

In early 2007, Kalekale, then aged 12, was caught throwing an egg at Mr Key’s car, the Herald reported.

Mr Key was visiting McGehan Close at the time, a street he had previously said epitomised “dead-end” New Zealand where an underclass had allowed hopelessness to “become ingrained”.

“Mr Key revisited the area in February 2007, and came face-to-face with Kalekale at Wesley Intermediate School during a visit to the I Have a Dream programme”.

“At the time, Mr Key asked him if he had since been well behaved. “Na,” came the reply”.

Solar electricity brings refrigerator and electrical appliances to Niua

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Kaniva Staff
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Niuatoputapu Island in the furthest north of Tonga will have a new solar electricity installation which will enable consumers to use refrigerators and normal household electrical appliances starting this year.

The solar power device is expected to have an inverter that could convert the DC electricity into 240 Volt AC power,  the Minister for Internal Affairs and MP for the Niuas, Hon Fe’ao Vakatā told Kaniva News.

At the same time a solar light system will be installed in Niuafo’ou, the Minister said.

The project was funded by ADB bank which would include funding allocated for street lights for both the islands.

This is the first solar electricity project to be established at Tonga’s outer islands except  Vava’u.

“Same project is expected for Nomuka, Ha’afeva, ‘Uiha, Felemea and Kauvai,” the Minister said.

The minister said most of the solar projects installed in the outer islands were primarily for solar lights only and they were not powerful enough to produce electricity for electrical home appliances.

He said they will travel to the Niuas next month as part of the ongoing works for the project.

Niuafo’ou is 591 km away from Tongatapu and according to the 2006 census has a population of 934.

Regarded as one of the most remote islands in the world, a vessel with passengers, goods for the shops, petrol and mail from Tongatapu arrives at Niuatoputapu once a month

PM waits for advice from department heads after Lord Sevele refuses to resign from Olympic body

By
Kalino Latu
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Tongan Prime Minister’Akilisi Pohiva is waiting for advice from government department heads after Lord Sevele ‘O Vailahi refused to resign as head of the kingdom’s Olympic committee.

The Prime Minister demanded Lord Sevele’s resignation and that of several committee members over alleged failings and delays in preparation for the 2019 South Pacific Games.

Lord Sevele has denied Hon. Pohiva’s accusations, accusing the government of not acting fast enough to support the planning and wanting to change the way preparations were carried out.

Questions have also been raised about the way a NZ$2 million grant from the New Zealand government has been spent.

Kaniva News was told this morning that the Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet, Tonga’s Solicitor General and the Ministry of Internal Affairs CEO are looking at how the Prime Minister should respond after Lord Sevele and some of the committee members in the Tonga South Pacific Games 2019 Committee (SPGC) refused the PM’s demand for their resignation.

The Prime Minister wrote to Lord Sevele, the Chair of SPGC 2019, the Secretary General Takitoa Taumoepeau, Committee Member Sakopo Lolohea and Newly Appointed Consultant Ringo Fa’oliu on December 15 last year and told them to voluntarily resign by December 18.

They were not warned of any consequences if they did not resign.

“I have been directed to provide the following response: The Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister are waiting for work conducted by these three bodies – Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet, Government’s Solicitor General and the Ministry of Internal Affairs CEO,” ‘Olita Tupou of the Prime Minister’s Office told Kaniva News.

Lord Sevele wrote to Hon. Pohiva on December 17, 2015, saying that according to his contract with the SPGC, the Prime Minister had no power to force him and General Secretary Taumoepeau to resign.

Lord Sevele, who is a former Prime Minister, said he and those committee members Hon. Pohiva had told to resign, would not step down.

Lord Sevele denied Hon. Pohiva’s claim that preparations for the South Pacific Games in 2019 were late.

He also disagreed with Hon. Pohiva’s claim that the committee members’ salaries were “excessive” and “extravagant.”

Lord Sevele justified their salaries on the grounds that they were the right people with the right experiences and skills to run the committee.

Hon. Pohiva’s letter to Lord Sevele was headed : “Displeasure and Concerns of the Hon. Prime Minister and Cabinet over the Performance and Involvement of the Chairman and Staff of the Organizing Committee for the South Pacific Games 2019.””

In the letter the Prime Minister expressed his disappointment at the progress “of the work that has been carried out by the previous Government and the Committee to secure funds and resources that includes land, manpower and progressive planning.”

The Prime Minister reminded Lord Sevele it was the responsibility of his government to make sure the 2019 Games were a success.

Hon. Pohiva told Lord Sevele it was unfortunate the committee has failed to acquire funding in time.

Hon. Pohiva said salaries for the committee and its staff members were excessive compared to their various roles and what they had been achieved so far.

“The South Pacific Games Committee is excessively paying its leadership and staff with extravagant monies rewarding themselves for non to minimum performance towards the preparation for the 2019 South Pacific Games,” Hon. Pohiva said in his letter.

Hon. Pohiva accused Lord Sevele of failing to do his job, saying, there was no “positive progress in the preparations for the Games since the appointment of the Chief Executive Officer and under his governance.”

The Prime Minister also raised his concerns about a NZ$2 million commitment to the Teufaiva Stadium upgrade by the New Zealand government.

Hon. Pohiha held Lord Sevele accountable for the problem after New Zealand stopped the release of the balance of the grant after NZ$102,000 was used for the Stadium Upgrade Design and Games Venue Master Plan.

A total of NZ$98,304.16 has yet to be paid to contractor BECA for work on the Games Venue Master Plan.

The Prime Minister said the New Zealand Deputy High Commissioner in Tonga wrote to the Chief Executive Officer for Internal Affairs and said the Grant Funding Arrangement for the Games Venue Master Plan and the Stadium Upgrade Design had now expired.

Hon. Pohiva also expressed his concerns at the salaries of the executive committee, which he described as “excessive” and “extravagant”.  This including Lord Sevele’s basic annual salary of $180,000. Secretary General Takitoa Taumoepeau is paid an annual salary of  $40,000 for working part time and committee member Sakopo Lolohea is paid an annual salary of $45,000 for working part time basis.

Lord Sevele’s response

In his letter to Hon. Pohiva on December 17, Lord Sevele denied the Prime Minister’s accusations.

“We disagree with your concern on the slow progress of the work,” Lord Sevele said.

“We are largely on target and indeed reasonably ahead of schedule as far as the Teufaiva Stadium Upgrade is concerned.

“Our target completion date here is 31 March 2017, more than two years before the Games.”

The Former General Secretary to Tonga’s National Sports body claimed the work they did at the committee may have been ahead of time if Hon. Pohiva’s government had done its bit to get the requisite funds.

In his letter, Lord Sevele reminded Hon. Pohiva about the advice Lord Tevita Tupou gave him at a meeting on December 3, 2015 that the Committee, its Chairman and staff had already done a lot of work.

“Your assertion that we have failed in our duty in not getting the funds for the construction of the buildings and other sporting amenities is not correct,” Lord Sevele said.

“The provisions of the Pacific Games Organization Act 2013 -Sections d) and e) give us the power- but – in cooperation with the Government Facilities Committee.”

Lord Sevele told Hon. Pohiva that issues surrounding the golf course was a matter for the government to handle.

He said Hon. Pohiva wanted to change that norm while he wanted confirmation from government if they wanted the change.

“If you want to change the existing arrangement, discuss it with your Ministers concerned and then put that in writing so that everyone is aware of your directive,” Lord Sevele wrote.

In regard to the money for the New Zealand government, Lord Sevele said: “At our meeting you asked pe ‘oku puli ki fe ‘a e silini koia. Neu tala atu ‘oku ‘ikai ha silini ia ‘e puli pe ‘ave ‘e ha taha – because it should be all in the Ministry of Finance to which it had been sent.”

“If you carefully read the letter from the NZ Deputy High Commissioner to which you refer in your letter to me, the relevant sentences are:

“Of New Zealand’s overall NZD$2 million commitment to the Teufaiva Stadium upgrade, NZD$1.898 million remains. This is the balance after a deduction of NZD$102,000 that we have provided in full to the Ministry of Finance and National Planning for the Stadium Upgrade Design and Games Venue Master Plan.”

Excessively large salary  

Lord Sevele said he was approached by the Organising Committee around mid-April 2014, to see if he would accept the appointment to the post of CEO and Chairman of the Organizing Committee under the Pacific Games Organization Act 2013.

“The salary you consider excessive is what they thought would compensate me sufficiently to consider taking up the post, given the other avenues of earning income that I would have to give up,” Lord Sevele said in his letter.

He said it was an amount agreed in a committee meeting.

He said the Acting Solicitor General, an ex-officio Member, consulted with the Remuneration Authority on behalf of the Committee.

“Your claim that the initial contract of employment for the CEO of the Committee was for $60,000 per annum is another puzzle to me,” he said. Neither I nor any of our staff or Committee Members had seen or raised anything concerning such a contract as you raised.”

The main points

  • Tongan Prime Minister’Akilisi Pohiva is waiting for advice from government department heads after Lord Sevele ‘O Vailahi refused to resign as head of the kingdom’s Olympic committee.
  • The Prime Minister demanded Lord Sevele’s resignation and that of several committee members over alleged failings and delays in preparation for the Games.
  • Lord Sevele has denied Hon. Pohiva’s accusations, accusing the government of not acting fast enough to support the planning and wanting to change the way preparations were carried out.
  • Questions have also been raised about the way a NZ$2 million grant from the New Zealand government has been spent.

For more information

Tonga’s PM casts doubt on country’s ability to host 2019 Pacific Games (ABC)

Tonga up for challenge to host Pacific Games despite criticism (Fiji Times)

Two arrested at airport for Tongan passport forgery appeared in court

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Kaniva Staff
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Two Chinese nationals who were arrested at Tonga’s international airport and were charged  over alleged possession and use of forged Tongan passports appeared in court today.

Magistrate Salesi Mafi released Gungchang Xiao and William Hu on bail to appear at the lower court on Monday, 18 January.

The court case came while Tonga Police were still hunting down two Chinese fugitives identified as 60-year-old Mrs Guo Hua also known as Kam Shanou and 61-year-old Mr Liu Xing Chun also known as Lou Singkei.

Police wanted the couple for allegedly involved in forging information on birth certificates in a bid to get Tongan passports but they vanished  while they were  bailed to appear at the Magistrate Court.

In December last year a 65-year-old woman from Ngele’ia  was arrested and charged with two counts of forgery and knowingly dealing with forged documents. She was set to appear in court on Monday.

Gun fired during Fasi armed robbery, Police search for two suspects

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Kaniva Staff
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Police are looking for two men who fired a gun during an armed robbery at a Fasi convenience store.

The suspects managed to escape with about TP$200 last Saturday.

No one was injured and Police have pleaded for public help to find the suspects.

The two men, who disguised their faces, entered the shop at Salote Road.

One of them allegedly fired a shot at the security guard hitting a carton of milk he was holding before shooting to the roof warning the Chinese shopkeeper to give them the money.

FBI probes US-Tongan company involving alleged immigration scam, Tongan victims speak out

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Kaniva Staff
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A Tongan organisation in the United States is being investigated by FBI alleging that an adult adoption program it claims will allow adults to become U.S. citizens was a “scam”.

No arrest has been made although FBI has seized computers and documents from the company’s office in Sacramento, California.

The company claimed it has agents in the South Pacific including Tonga and Fiji.

Hilamani Hansen also known as Helamani and his wife Viola Hansen also known as Sela Hansen was the couple at the centre of the FBI investigation.

Bank accounts affiliated with Hansen, his wife and employees of his companies showed hundreds of deposits and hundreds of thousands of dollars deposited and withdrew by various names, it has been reported.

Sacramento County says it will not take any more adoptions sponsored by Hansen’s America Helping America program.

It said it has found some applications used false addresses.

Clients who used the company’s services were told they had a quick path to citizenship if they pay $5,000 to $10,000 a person.

“These people said they were told they could become citizens by being adopted by another adult all through the help of Dr. Helaman Hansen and his company Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce (AHA)”.

A US immigration expert told KCR News it was a “scam”

Hansen told US media that neither he nor his companies have been charged nor convicted of anything.

Since the Hansen investigation was made public, Tongans who claimed they failed victims to the hands of their own people came forward and claimed they spent thousands of dollars through Hansen’s AHA programme after they were promised to get US citizenship but to no avail.

All Tongan victims who spoke to Kaniva News did not want to be identified because of their immigration status in the States.

One person said she spent about US$5,000 to get her adopted by a citizen couple and it was approved  but quitted after she could not afford to pay further costs the company demanded so they continued to work on her application to get her citizenship.

Some in the Tongan-Sacramento community said Tongans had been repeatedly warned to be careful about the services provided by the AHA saying they were wasting their money on it but most ignored the warning.

One of those people who stood up to help protect the community was Rev Malakai Lose.

“Rev Malakai Lose has warned our people many years ago but most of them said Rev Lose did not love them and did not want them to stay in  here in the United  States legally,” a Tongan community member in Sacramento said.

The organisation

Hansen is the founder and chairman of AHA, which is based in Sacramento. Immigration attorneys said the claim that adult adoption leads to citizenship is patently wrong, Washington Post reported.

The company claims to have people working all across the country including Nevada, Hawaii, Utah, Oregon, Washington, New York, Minnesota and California. They also claim to have representatives recruiting people for the adult adoption program in Tonga and in Fiji, it said.

“Adult adoption is legal and used for things like estate planning and adult care, but according to immigration attorneys as well as ICE, it has no bearing on immigration status.

“Federal agents served a search and seizure warrant on Dec. 22 for all of Hansen’s affiliated companies’ offices, as well as his home.

“Man, I was not even surprised. I was happy,” Hansen said. “I was happy because — thank you for coming — because we need to clear our building. We need to clear how we stand here.”

An FBI  75-page affidavit detailing the almost yearlong investigation states that the FBI is looking for evidence of possible mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud undocumented immigrants.

According to the affidavit, the FBI began its full investigation in February 2015 after a complaint by an employee.

“The document quotes alleged victims and former employees.

“It also details other investigations.

“The affidavit states that a Minnesota judge ruled that AHA had violated Minnesota law by giving legal advice and preparing legal documents without being licensed attorneys.

While talking to KCR  about the FBI investigation, Hansen staid, “Why hasn’t the FBI arrest us here? I am waiting for that day.” He added, “the FBI don’t even know what they’re doing because when I was sitting over there, they were trying to tell me this this this. I listen to it . . . nothing but all false.”

About Dr Hilamani Hansen

Hilamani Hansen described himself in the internet as married  and after leaving Liahona High School in Tonga in 1970 he  left for New Zealand in 1974. After graduating from Wellington Teacher’s  College he went to Australia in 1977 and lived in Queensland, Surfers Paradise and attended Griffith University, then moved to Brisbane Qld 1981.

He claimed he worked as a Hotel Manager for 7 years, then moved to Sydney 1989. In 1991 he worked as a project manager for the BP Oil CO while attending Western Sydney University for 5 years, then spent 4 years with the NSW State Goverment before he relocated to USA in 1999.

In the year 2000 he claimed he ran a construction company DBC management inc.  He also claimed he had been involved in various institutions online in Business and Marketing Management, like Donald Trump school, Cornell University.

He said he was still staying with his wife Sela Hansen also known as Viola Hansen with 3 children and 15 grandchildren.

He claimed he was heavily involved with the community as chairman and founder of the Pacific Islanders Community California, and they  have 3 television channels, a community channel, church channel, and youth channel on comcast, and online.

He also claimed he was a member of the NRCC National Congressional Committee, and co-chair for California small business minority, and member of the business advisory council USA.

He also wrote that “I am a changed man now”, laughing.

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