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SUVA - Australian conman Peter Foster has ended his week-long hunger strike at a Fiji hospital, clearing the way for police to question him over fraud allegations.
The doctor treating Foster said his patient's condition was much improved and he should be discharged early in the week, Fiji's Sunday Times reported.
Foster had been refusing to eat, in protest at what he called his brutal treatment by police officers who plucked him from a river he dived into to evade capture 11 days ago.
He suffered a gashed head during the capture, which is the subject of a police internal investigation.
Police had expected to interview Foster nearly a week ago but the hospital declined to discharge him while he was weak from the hunger strike.
"He has informed me that he has started to eat and I can see that he is looking much better," consulting surgeon Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete told the newspaper.
"Hopefully, he will be discharged soon."
Foster has been under police guard at Suva's Colonial War Memorial Hospital since being admitted on October 25.
Once he is taken to a police station for questioning, officers have a 48-hour time limit to press charges.
He is suspected of involvement in an alleged fraud against a Micronesian bank, as well as immigration fraud and a plot to discredit a Fiji resort developer.
Foster says he is innocent and accuses former associates of framing him.
- AAP
