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The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

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By PNG Echo Then… Sam Koim started his legal career, at the end of 2008, as an employed lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General. He rose quickly (within three years) to national – even international – prominence. Koim owes his meteoric rise, at least the start of it, to his friendship with Sam Basil. Indeed it was Basil, then Minister for National Planning in the O’Neill/Namah government, who, in 2011, put in a submission to the NEC for the establishment of Task Force Sweep (TFS) with Koim at the helm. At the time, Koim had only two years Continue reading The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim→

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The Defense of Task Force Sweep (Who’s funding Koim?)

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By PNG Echo (Keep reading to the end where the document that answers the question is supplied.) It was the National Executive Council (NEC) that established Task Force Sweep and it was the NEC that terminated the agency. But Sam Koim couldn’t accept the inevitable. He was enjoying his elevated and internationally lauded position, notwithstanding his inexperienced and inept management of the agency that saw only half of his prosecutions make it through a committal hearing and of many of those that have, have been an unnecessary failure, according to a concerned legal expert. Koim recently stated of the decommissioning Continue reading The Defense of Task Force Sweep (Who’s funding Koim?)→

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