Siromi Turaga

Siromi Dokonivalu Turaga is a Fijian lawyer, politician, and cabinet minister who served as Attorney-General of Fiji from 2022 to 2024.

[1] He joined the Fijian civil service in 1991 as a cadet in the prime minister's office, and later studied law.

[2][3] In April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic he acquitted two men of breaching a curfew on the grounds that the charge was defective as the Prime Minister had no power to order arrests under the Public Health Act.

[4] The ruling was subsequently set aside by the High Court,[5] and in May 2020 his contract as a magistrate was not renewed.

[13] On 5 June 2024 he was stripped of his role as Attorney-General over advice on an MP's pay rise.