[2] As the Controller and Chief Auditor, Su'a Rimoni's efforts against government corruption in Samoa earned him international notability.
In 1994 he tabled an Annual Report to Parliament that revealed wide-scale corruption in the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) government under Tofilau Eti Alesana.
He then sued the Attorney General and the Legislative Assembly, stating that they had acted unlawfully by referring his report to the Commission of Inquiry instead of the Public Accounts Committee, and in particular that the former had violated Article 99 of the Constitution.
[1][3] As such in 1997 the HRPP amended the Constitution to make the Controller and Chief Auditor appointed for a term of three years, and to permit his removal upon motion of the government and a simple majority vote by Parliament.
[10] When his election petition was successful,[11] Ah Chong's house was burned down,[12] and the government brought criminal charges of bribery and treating against him.