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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 Paraka case: Losing the forest amongst the trees.

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By PNG Echo. Although the Paraka case exposes the biggest corruption ring ever prosecuted in Papua New Guinea, lately the prosecution of just one man has taken over, to the seeming exclusion of all others – the case of the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill.  He is a huge spreading tree camouflaging the rest of the forest. In part, this is the fault of the Prime Minister himself who has stubbornly refused to be questioned by police. His refusal, and the machinations to avoid doing so, has divided the police force and, as in 2011, has pitted the executive against the Continue reading The Paraka case: Losing the forest amongst the trees.→

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