Fiji rugby union board are set to to quit in the latest row with the regime. The government had threatened to withhold three million Fiji dollars ($1.6 million) in grants for this year’s World Cup unless the board quit following an official probe that found the FRU mismanaged a fundraising lottery.
Bole, whose government seized power in a bloodless 2006 coup, said the board agreed to step down at a meeting Thursday and the FRU would elect new officials at the end of February.
In a statement posted on the government website Friday, he said funding for Fiji’s campaign at the World Cup in New Zealand could now be released.