![FRU House - [Photo: File photo]](https://www.fijivillage.com/news_images/1619904597646464ae00a69bf30c8d.jpg)
The Administrator of Fiji Rugby, Simione Valenitabua says he is focused on ensuring all the legal processes are followed to get the Fiji Rugby Union out of the legal mess that the previous administration had put our parent rugby body in.
Valenitabua stresses that the suspension of the FRU from the World Rugby Council was due to FRU risking everything our forebears had built up for FRU by acting fraudulently in misrepresentation.
He says FRU was saying they are a company, yet they are a charitable trust legally.
Valenitabua says FRU was saying it was governed by a Constitution of 2018 however, that Constitution was in the form of an Articles of Association of a company.
The Fiji Rugby Administrator says FRU was also saying that they have a CEO and a Board of Directors however, the last valid Constitution of 1997 for Fiji Rugby Football Union Trust Board does not provide for a CEO or a Board of Directors but an Administrator and a Board of Trustees.
Valenitabua says all this needs to be regularised and legalised in the next 6 months.
He says we have no choice but to comply with the World Rugby conditions so that we can regain our seat in the World Rugby Council.
Minister for Justice, Siromi Turaga had to move to protect the assets and operations of the FRU, appoint interim trustees of the FRU to take it to a Special General Meeting and appoint an interim administrator to act on behalf of the interim trustees.
Turaga confirmed that as Minister for Justice, he exercised his powers under the Charitable Trusts Act in his meeting with the previous board of directors of the FRU.
He says the FRU cannot operate as a charitable trust as it is being run by a board using articles of association of the FRU Company.
Turaga says this is illegal for charitable trusts.
This has also raised the questions about the deals and agreements entered into by the previous administration which was operating as a company but registered as a charitable trust.
