THE COURT REPORT
Paraka ordered to pay K6.6 million to workers superfund
Controversial lawyer and aspiring politician, Paul Paraka, has been ordered by the National court to pay over K6.6 million in unpaid rent and interest to Nambawan Superfund Limited. Nambawan Super is PNG’s largest superannuation fund provider and is the owner of the Mogoru Moto building in downtown Port Moresby, where Paraka’s law firm was based from 2013. In June 2020,…
THE COURT REPORT
Prosecution Alleges Paraka Directed Expansive Laundromat
…Berrigan, details were provided of an alleged money laundering scheme involving eight law firms. Justice Berrigan summarises its core features as claimed by the prosecution: “It is alleged that the accused [Paul Paraka] caused the law firms to receive the payments, remove their commission and then transfer the monies to two accounts in the name of PPL [Paul Paraka Lawyers],…
THE TOKAUT BLOG
Yama fails in latest bid to quash criminal charges
It is a familiar story, one that PNGi has reported on numerous times before. The nation’s elite politicians and businessmen using their wealth and position to mount numerous legal challenges to delay criminal charges or civil sanction. Peter O’Neill, Paul Paraka, Patrick Pruaitch and many more are all adept at manipulating the system to retain their positions of power, and…
THE COURT REPORT
Paraka fails again in his attempts to avoid justice
Notorious lawyer and serial litigator, Paul Paraka, has failed in his latest attempt to avoid justice over an alleged K162 million fraud, committed between 2007 and 2011. The National Court has refused to grant Paraka a court order to quash or permanently block the indictment against him issued by the Public Prosecutor. This is the second such decision by the…
THE COURT REPORT
Court dismisses Paraka’s bid to avoid justice
…a guilty verdict being passed slowly, slowly decreases. Not necessarily because the accused is innocent, but because the tools which a prosecutor needs to meet the high evidentiary threshold for proving criminal guilt have gone blunt over time. Which is why the current tactics being employed by controversial lawyer and would-be politician Paul Paraka, whatever his intent, are in effect…
THE COURT REPORT
Rent arrears stacked up while Paraka ran for Parliament
In 2017, controversial lawyer Paul Paraka, tried to wrest control of the National Capital District from the incumbent governor, Powes Pakop, by contesting the NCD regional seat in the National election. Meanwhile, unbeknown to voters, Paraka was running up a huge debt in unpaid rents for his legal offices in downtown Port Moresby. Paraka’s landlord, Nambawan Super Limited, is PNG’s…
THE COURT REPORT
ONeill, Paraka and a Senior Whistleblower
In December 2018 charges against controversial lawyer Paul Paraka were dismissed by the Magistrates Court. A fresh prosecution has now been successfully instated on a single count of misappropriation. During the interim period, Paraka claimed ‘I will prosecute those bastards myself’. He was referring to those who had mounted the original criminal case against him. One individual in particular was…
PNGi INVESTIGATES
Is the net finally closing in on Isaac Lupari?
…million in out of court settlements, as the Commission of Inquiry into the Department of Finance revealed in 2009. Paul Paraka’s law firm assisted Lupari in making his fraudulent legal claims and received K800,000 from the State for ‘doing a minimal amount of work’. Lupari was assisted in making his claims by Paraka lawyers, who the Commission of Inquiry said…
THE COURT REPORT
Yama loses over K22m in one day
…and entirely separate matter, in April 2016, Justice Sakora was arrested and charged with corruption. His arrest was in relation to an injunction granted to controversial lawyer, Paul Paraka, suppressing the publication of the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Department of Finance. It is a charge Sakora denies. Also in an unrelated matter, Justice Sakora is currently…
