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Condemned SABL used for eviction application
...to those involved in the land grab to ever want it investigated and exposed. That the Commission of Inquiry ever took place is due entirely to an accident of history and the failing health of Michael Somare. The Grand Chief was lying in a hospital bed in Singapore. His ultimate successor, Peter O’Neill, was still sharpening the political knives. For...
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Solomon Islands Paradise Destroyed by Plunder
...In August 2015 it was alleged that following the original announcement of the cancellation of Bintang Borneo’s lease, in January 2015, APID subsidiary, confusingly named Bintan Mining, paid for a chartered flight worth $44,000 to investigate the boundaries of Bintang’s lease. Onboard the flight, were the then Minister for Mines Peter Auga, the deputy director of Environment Tia Masolo and...
THE TOKAUT BLOG
Can the PM Defend a Nation he Wants to Own?
...of Borneo Pacific Pharmaceuticals), and Darren James Young (Kumul Consolidated Holdings Managing Director). Is it the same Peter O’Neill? Is the “Peter O’Neill” who owns Paradise Breweries, Prime Minister “Peter O’Neill”? Well, the signature, address and date of birth on official IPA documentation for the Peter O’Neill of Paradise Breweries all match those of the Prime Minister. The signatures of...
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Australia gets another F
...Australian national, Antoinette Amputch. Both Moore and Amputch are intimately involved in Insurance Partners (PNG) Limited. Insurance Partners has an interesting list of shareholders. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s accountant, Joseph Kup, was one of the company’s first shareholder. Peter O’Neill personally acquired a direct stake in the company after his firm LBJ Investment Ltd purchased 407,000 shares for an undisclosed...
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Fact-Checking the Kramer Allegations
...to be his first cousin for absolutely no work done. Therefore, he is jointly and severally liable for misappropriation of that amount. This is an interesting detail indeed, which lends credibility to Kramer’s claim that Peter Yamuna is a relation of Peter O’Neill (i.e. Peter Yamuna shares close links to Wandi Yamuna, who appears to be O’Neill’s first cousin). The...
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An Australian Mega-Scandal: The 10 Red Flags at Manus
...construction and security services for refugees on Manus Island, saying it would “cause damage to Australia’s international relations with Papua New Guinea” for the details of the offshore immigration regime to be made public’. Australia’s Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, observes: ‘I believe the disclosure of the requested material would, or could reasonably be expected to, cause damage to international...
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From Central City to Konebada: Milking Two White Elephants
...provided by a Steering Committee, which Kila Ai and Peter Nicholls both sat on alongside Australian national, Hans Euscher. It also appears for a period that the Chair of the Central City Steering Committee, was Sir Moi Avei, whose connection to Peter Nicholls has already been noted. The Konebada Petroleum Park Authority governance was overseen by a Working Group. While...
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PNGi 2018 – A Quick Review
...is a theme which appeared time and time again in PNGi investigations in 2018. In-depth profiles of long-time leaders like Chris Haiveta, Fabian Pok, Michael Nali and Peter Yama each exposed how these high-profile politicians have time and again avoided liability despite being recommended for further investigation or prosecution in Commissions of Inquiry, other administrative processes or even by the...
THE COURT REPORT
Peter Yama dodges electoral bribery charge
...of Finance recommended Peter Yama be referred to the police for making ‘an unlawful claim’. There is no evidence on the public record the police ever followed up on either matter. This stands in stark contrast to events in 2013, when Peter Yama was convicted for threatening to kill police officers in a fracas outside the Madang court house (which,...
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The ONeill-ADB Scandal Unredacted
...Development Bank anti-corruption investigation, which has been specially un-redacted by PNGi investigators for the wider public. This report produced by the Office of Anti-Corruption and Integrity discloses evidence that a company owned at the time by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, Wild Cat Developments, won a massive tender (nearly K80 million), marked by forgery and fraud, all of which suggested the...
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ONeill Bridge Deal Hits Audit Iceberg
...panels, the full story timeline blow by terrible blow. Now the cards are on the table, it remains to be seen whether anyone with a mandate to investigate Peter O’Neill will have the courage to follow this through. You can also read our three-part investigation into O’Neill’s business empire, published in 2017, where you can witness the many other state...
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The K2.65 million question: Jimmy Maladina and Meck Luo
...Paradise Breweries Limited. Paradise Breweries is 100% owned by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Maladina is alleged to be the Prime Minister’s Chief Adviser. There are other links. Meck Luo and Jimmy Maladina are tied through Sun Pacific Investments Limited. Luo and Maladina jointly own the company. They are its sole Directors. The company’s assets are stated to be K3,356. Diagram:...
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AGO: Australian Rorts K13 million from Defence Budget
Sometimes when investigating one scandal PNGi trips over another. That happened during the case of Fabian Pok. As we dug into the financial belly of Defence, a rort exposed by the Auditor General was uncovered. At its centre is Australian national, Anubhav Yadav, and his shelf company Makro Limited. The scenario in brief. The Central Supply and Tender Board (CSTB)...
POWER PROFILES
Fabian Pok: Leadership Tribunal Material
...Moresby First) to manage ICPNG’s real-estate portfolio. Port Moresby First was said to be beneficially owned by O’Neill. The company employed the wives both of Peter O’Neill and Dr Fabian Pok. Ruimb recalls: [These] further conversations were a follow up on various other project that Peter O’Neill had made to me suggesting that all the Investment Corporation properties be given...
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Michael Nali Part 3: Climbing the Great Wall
...Nali formally established his personal business relationship with the China Railway Group during 2014. At the time he was out of public office, having lost two consecutive elections. But he remained closely entwined with political heavyweights, including the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill. Michael Nali and Peter O’Neill are business partners in Niu Finance Limited In March of 2014, Michael Nali...
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Michael Nali Part 2: Friends, Allies and Business
...the companies connected to Michael Nali 2929 11 https://d6mljhs7208w9.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/07/2870-nalis-companies.zip Partnership with the Prime Minister Immediately following his re-election to parliament in 2017, Michael Nali was appointed Minister for Works and Implementation in the government of Peter O’Neill. The two men have a much longer commercial relationship. Since 2009, Michael Nali and Peter O’Neill have both been shareholders in the consumer...
POWER PROFILES
Michael Nali Part 1: A Bad Penny Returns?
...in a number of businesses. Second, Kwadi Inn, was a shareholder in the Paga Hill development, and in Peter O’Neill’s company NIU Finance, where O’Neill was also listed as Managing Director. Prime Minister O’Neill did not recuse himself. Peter O’Neill and Michael Nali are tightly bound through numerous ventures. When Nali gradually sold his Paga Hill shares off to the...
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Border Development Authority: Dont let the rats flee this sinking ship
...Vanimo-Green alleged that the BDA ‘had contracted a foreign consultant from Iceland for K10 million to do scoping work and planning of the new Vanimo township’ (Post Courier 21/7/2010). Then there was the contract given to Peter O’Neill’s Remington Technology Limited to set up a VSAT communications system for the BDA, along with Australian firm Orion Satellite Systems. Were that...
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Communication tower mystery poses serious questions
...only allegations. Yamuna has also been a business associate of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, and, as recently as 2017, Yamuna was reportedly serving as the PM’s deputy Chief of Staff. Our current mystery though, begins in 2006. In February of that year a State Lease was issued over 2.76 hectares of land in the Varirata National Park to the company...
PNGi INVESTIGATES
The Yama Files Part V: The Tale of 10 Supreme Court Judges
narrative narrative Staff Reporters Why Report? Why Report? Why report on Peter Yama? Why report on John Dege? Why report on Gudmundur Fridriksson? Why report on Peter O’Neill? Why report on Lachlan Leishman? Why report on Michael Somare? The stories are not about Peter Yama, John Dege, Peter O’Neill, Gudmundur Fridriksson, or whoever you may want to name. These are...
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The Yama Files Part IV: Finance CoI Slams Yama
...offered by the then Solicitor General, Zachary Gelu for his decision to award K15.5 million to Peter Yama in 2002. The K15.5m was an out of court settlement for a K38,690,000 claim lodged by Peter Yama. The claim was for alleged losses and damage suffered as a result of not being able to develop land acquired during 1989 in Madang....
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The Yama Files Part III: When Clever Lawyering Backfires
...allegations of ‘fraud, conspiracy to defraud and illegality of contract’ against Peter Yama’s companies. The Supreme Court found that the original applications for default judgments filed by Peter Yama’s lawyers, had significant procedural problems and should have been found ‘incompetent’ and ‘struck out’. The December 2000 defaults judgments were not the first attempt by Peter Yama to expeditiously obtain a...
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The Yama Files Part II: The Midnight Contract
...and a stunning defeat for Yama. Read more about the story of how Peter Yama lost K22M in a day. This brought an end to two decades of legal battles between Peter Yama and the NCDC. There are two final end notes though. In 2007, days after his retirement from the bench, Justice Kubulan Los, whose decisions marked the beginning...
PNGi INVESTIGATES
The Yama Files Part I: Sue the State and Sue Big!
narrative narrative narrative PNGi Reporters Peter Yama: A Pen Portrait Peter Yama: A Pen Portrait Has Papua New Guinea got the stomach for five days of Peter Yama? We think so! Hold on to your hats! Over five excoriating days PNGi publishes the results of an investigation into one of Papua New Guinea’s most controversial politicians; one who has a...