legal division head walks free

Samoa LTA assistant CEO found guilty, legal division head walks free

They include two counts of altering documents with intent to deceive and four counts of using altered documents.

The charges were the result of a police investigation into tampering with date information for certain vehicles on the authority's electronic system.

However the lawyer and manager of the authority's legal division, Anoanoa'i Pepe Lafai, has been found not guilty of charges of forgery, altering, destroying, and concealing documents.

Ms Lafai, a New Zealand born Samoan, said after the ruling it had been a stressful time.