…some powerful business connections. In July 2016, as Mandeep Newton, Mandy registered the company Ethos 4 Limited. It is a company she jointly owns with Lynn Dora Micah, Jean Eparo and Martha Kaia. According to an article published on PNG Blogs, Lynn Dora Micah is the wife of former government Minister Ben Micah. Ben Micah has featured in a number…

…Peter O’Neill and Acting Treasury Secretary Dairi Vele, the Ombudsman Commission identifies Isaac Lupari as having played an important role. It was Lupari, along with Minister Ben Micah, who ‘wrongly and improperly’ issued specific directives and instructions to the Independent Public Business Corporation and the National Petroleum Company of the NEC decision to purchase the shares and for them to…

…Minister for State Enterprises Ben Micah was wrong and improper when he directed the IPBC Board and management to approve via a Direction Deed the interest payment to UBS. The conduct of Isaac Lupari, Chief Secretary to Peter O’Neill, was wrong and improper when he advised the IPBC of the NEC Decision 79/2014 for the State to acquire shares in…

…Portion 698 (adjacent to Jacksons airport). PNGi has previously examined the details behind the purchase of Portions 406 and Portions 698 and the roles played by various high profile figures, including government Ministers, William Duma and Fabian Pok, and former Minister’s Tim Neville and Ben Micah. Now we turn our attention to Portions 422 and 423. These two portions were…

…includes the former politicians, Tim Neville and Ben Micah, expatriate lawyer Greg Sheppard, a sitting Judge, Kenneth Frank, and three Department Secretaries, Messrs John Porti, Dairi Vele and Romilly Kila Pat. The case centres on portion 698, a 30.6 hectare block of land abutting Port Moresby airport. According to the Administrative Inquiry report, ‘Defence needed a property in Port Moresby…